My sense is that most of the US non-denier public (and perhaps publics in other industrial nations) are simply terrified and/or paralyzed. They sense that the current fossil-fuel based way of life is coming to an end, one way or another, climate catastrophe, disappearance of cheap energy supplies and/or global economic collapse. But no one's providing any scenarios of what a future life not based on fossil fuel could/might be like.
Typically, as close as one gets is either some pie-in-the-sky we'll just switch to solar, wind, water and geothermal, use electric cars, low wattage light bulbs and off we go. Or else we get an apocalyptic "back to the neolithic, Mad Max" calamity. There's nothing in between that's presented, much less proposed and planned, and so most people either ignore climate change and hope "someone thinks of something", or else hope that our current era of "Happy Motoring" lasts as long as possible.
People will never voluntarily sacrifice unless they know the game plan, strategy and desired end game. They need to know what it is we're working towards, something other than, "Let's avoid climate disaster".
