Because "ordinary" people are the ones who need to hear the message. Politicians will maintain the status quo for as long as it is what their focus groups say the public want. When millions start to say they want change, change will happen. Too many people deliberately choose to be deaf, they...
Not saying that the solution was to allow the burning of fossil fuel... Just pointing out the at real cost of *not* polluting the atmosphere is that the West will have to pay for the rest of the world to industrialise in a cleaner, greener way.
To stop the lesser developed countries polluting...
So the West get 100 years of free reign f**king up the planet with our technological advance. Other nations reach the same stage and are hamstrung and not allowed to catch up.
Either, you accept the rest of the world will have a rapid industrialisation and pollute accordingly or the West...