Anyone else surprised that there isn’t more uproar about global warming right now?

Exactly this. The planet is massively overpopulated and growing exponentially. Every child is a consumer.
A child in the UK generates over 60metric tonnes of CO2 in their first 10 years. That’s the equivalent of 70 return flights from London to New York.
And the economy clearly doesn't need them based on the threads on here that bemoan the lack of jobs for young people.

Like you OP, it really surprises me that people aren’t more concerned about climate change, given the horrific heatwaves this summer (and indeed over the last few years). Excess deaths, wildfires in Spain, parched gardens, the threat of drought - I find it all terrifying and ominous. If this is what summers are like now, imagine what they’ll be like in 20 or 30 years time. Think what our children are going to suffer.

Some of the cavalier, irresponsible and frankly idiotic responses on this thread make me despair that anything can be salvaged for humanity.

We can all only do our best given our circumstances. The sad thing is some people don't try and some people seem to actively want to enshittify everything.

Just because some people are idiots doesn't mean we all have to be.

I honestly think that it's because people are enjoying the heat/summer so much, that they don't think about global warming.

Bad I know...

It's not futile. Individual actions add up to a lot.

The less we consume, the less gets manufactured. And the less fuel is spent transporting unnecessary crap

The less we travel mindlessly the less fuel is burnt

The more we cover our gardens with grass and trees and flowers and veg rather than AstroTurf the better

The more we set these examples the more others feel able to follow them.

I have to use a car as I am disabled but I make sure it is a tiny economical car even though I earn a high income. I don't feel any pressure to keep up with the neighbours

When someone else tells me about their efforts it makes me feel less alone and more inspired to do more.

When we give to green charities and vote for green politicians (locally and nationally) it shifts the conversations and considerations and options

Was on holiday last week, place full of Brits in their fast fashion, false nails, tattoo sleeves,( judgy I know) watched many vape as if their lives depended on it and throwing them away when empty despite the proliferation of bins. In short the insta tiktok generation are both very selfish and ignorant.

How can anyone say climate change is so last year?? It doesn't go away, it's not a trend. It's a reality!!
Everyone needs today there bit.. however small, if trillions of people did we could lessner the worse case scenario that we are rapidly moving towards, and how can we do that to the next generations, it's criminal.

We all need to make a difference to help this planet, we only have one planet, I don't know why people don't do more, especially when they have children who are going to grow up into a very unstable planet for humans to survive on. Even the smallest things help when trillions of people do them together. Ie: don't buy big cars, don't buy plastic water bottles, refuse, recycle, reuse, eat less meat and fish and diary. Have less things. Vote against fossil fuels. Plant more meadows and wild flowers.
Don't travel on as many airplanes. Walk more.
That's just for starters....make a difference. Sign petitions against money making oil giants and billionaires. Educate everyone. Don't moan about it do something about it...we shouldn't leave it to it's too late...how can we do that to the next generations.

It is these sort of sneering attitudes to protesters that probably puts them off. Greta Thunberg has probably done more than anybody on the planet to raise awareness of climate change and has built a huge platform. Why shouldn't she also support other causes as well?
I find it so depressing that people talk like this about the very people who are trying to do something rather than the leaders and corporations who are actually responsible.
If you talk like this about Greta Thunberg you would probably have talked the same way about civil right protesters, the suffragettes and anti apartheid protesters as well.

The groups like extinction rebellion and just stop oil were banned by the government, so any people based movement feel futile because any protest groups will be silenced in the same way!

Scientists have been raising the alarm since the 1980s, the evidence is there that we are experiencing climate breakdown and an extinction level event as a result of human activity… but people don’t want to change their lives… and politicians are often in the pockets of fossil fuel lobbyists and accept political donations from fossil fuel companies.

My career is linked to the impacts of climate change - hence the user name and for my whole career this is exactly what the organisation I work for has been predicting for the last 25 years…

The economic impacts of climate change are huge… the impact on food security and health too!

But unless governments take action it’s all fairly futile!

I think it’s more likely greta, being ND has just shifted her obsession elsewhere. She’s not the only activist though.

Or stop natural evolution of the planet?😬

But its completely true! Pro pally is the latest trend for the protesters, no one cares about climate change anymore.

Speak for yourself @gamerchick I’m very much enjoying this heat

It's not just about hot summers though. That's part of the problem and no bugger is enjoying this heat.

@DontrockthecaravanGeoffrey until private flights are curtailed for the rich, criticising people’s annual flight to Spain just won’t wash. I’ll give up my annual flight when Prince Harry and his pals fly on commercial flights (good enough for the Queen after all !)

I imagine those organisations are doing less protesting because peaceful protest has been criminalised by the current government, that fundamental right has been removed from us.

Fantastic reply. I hate the deniers. It's happening

Weather has happened before. What would you suggest anyone does about it?
Do you think standing on a street corner in Coventry, golding a sign and chanting "down with this sort of thing" is going to stop China burning coal. Or close the lithium mines in Africa?.

What?? This is the sort of inane comment that makes me doubt the future of humanity.

Many people see the problem but we cannot stop what’s happening. We avoid plastic and they build AI data centres. What do you propose that we do? As the parent of a disabled adult daughter, with 9 other family never too, that works 52 hrs a week to survive, what do you suggest I do?

I think people get fed up with it as everytime they say anything they get called a Leftie