Should climate activists better connect to people's aspirations for making what they want more affordable?

I've heard some talk in media that worry about climate change is not high on the list of priorities for most American people. Worry about the cost of living is much higher. There is an author named Matthew Huber who writes that climate change activists need to better address and connect their messages to people's concerns about cost of living.

In my case, that connection seems easy. Bicycling and public transit tends to cost less than owning a car. Living in a small space is less costly than a big house. Of course, my lifestyle has always been different than average. Most people don't wish to be minimalists, especially if they are raising a family.

Even families can live on less, but that idea doesn't really sell. In my case, I prefer a less stressful lifestyle. I think driving a heavy fast moving car in traffic would be too stressful for me. Many career choices and responsibilities, in the lives of others, would be too stressful for me. A life with lots of exercise has been enjoyable and good for my health. I seem to have plenty of social life and possibly more time for social life without those so called "higher standard of living" things.

Still, it seems like Huber, feels that asking people to reduce climate change through lifestyles isn't working. Instead, better connecting aspirations for a rising standard of living, that so many working class people have, to better energy policies would be a better road to successful politics, for instance messages about how greener energy, such as solar, can be less expensive than fossil fuels.

Trying to win back members of the working class who have recently left the Democratic Party is the topic of a lot of discussion. I understand, for the most part, that thinking, but I still seem to like my own lifestyle. It works for me. This is partially true because I have been able to live in affordable housing. That makes a difference.

Whatever agenda there is, it needs to allow people to have lives that work and are affordable or else it will not play well at the polls.