I think it's 100% because the changes are so slow(in human terms). Vast majority of people don't yet see anything that would make them go into this full-on panic mode, so....they don't. Yeah the permafrost is melting, but I have bills to pay this month. What am I going to do? Go and protest all day? What is my kid going to eat in the meantime?
And I think this slowness of reaction is also what will make any sort of solution extremely difficult to implement - people will complain that they are feeling the impact of any solution right now(like, if plastics were banned tomorrow), while the climate won't improve for a long time - even if we stopped our emissions entirely the climate would keep getting worse for decades until any meaningful improvement would be observed.
And I think this slowness of reaction is also what will make any sort of solution extremely difficult to implement - people will complain that they are feeling the impact of any solution right now(like, if plastics were banned tomorrow), while the climate won't improve for a long time - even if we stopped our emissions entirely the climate would keep getting worse for decades until any meaningful improvement would be observed.