It’s hilarious to me that South Park has been on the air long enough that they had to essentially apologize and admit they were wrong about their edgy climate change contrarianism when reality started catching up.

No, it’s even worse than that. There’s a stable part of America that still refuses to believe in it. They tend to be “Christians” that are just killing time waiting for the rapture anyway. These are only tangently related, as their true religion is “I get to tell you what to do; you don’t get to tell me what you do,” which the GOO then exploits to stay rich and powerful.