Right now they don't, but the major governments can set up incentives so that e.g. carbon sequestration would/could become a profitable industry.
After talking to many people over many years - its getting increasing clear that we cannot afford to stop our economic systems.
Even meager impacts of these systems result in huge shocks to the political systems which result in politicians getting un-elected.
This means that the people talking about actual change will never get the floor - the requirements are too high- profit margins will take too much of a hit, GDP growth will become anemic and wage growth will be stunted.
The things we need, are too expensive, and its FAR too cheap to just abuse the commons, than to let people know the actual full price of the cheap and convenient goods we use.