A central question for environmental policy is how individuals' material conditions shape their willingness to support costly action on climate change and the environment. My research in this area examines how energy insecurity, labour market risk, and broader economic crises affect preferences for energy, climate, and social policy. This work shows that economic precarity can reduce environmental concern and reshape which types of policy interventions citizens are willing to support — distinguishing, for example, between compensatory measures and long-term investment. It also investigates how the distributional consequences of climate policies, including who bears the costs of carbon taxation, affect the political feasibility of the green transition.