Well, yes and no. The guys rolling coal in their pickups have no ability to financially ride out the effects of climate change. The people in Florida whose homes are falling into the sea aren’t better off.

What’s happening is that a substantial segment of voters have tied their identity to the idea of “not being leftists” and that means that anything leftists care about is automatically bad. They obsessively perform these displays of anti-environmentalism because being against the left is so tied up in all these deeply held core beliefs about their identity, to a point where they no longer know how to disentangle any of it.

And yes, this behaviour is being actively encouraged by wealthy accelerationists, because it benefits them.