“We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we have done it.” – Jean-Claude Juncker
You’ve got this odd situation where people don’t actually realise how bad this is, because if it was really bad then the governments would actually do something about it, but the governments know that if they do what is needed, a lot of people will be substantially poorer, and then they’ll get voted out and replaced with somebody who brings back all the petrol cars and the toxic shit being dumped into rivers.