Because people don't like to confront the reality of the problem.
“It is worse, much worse, than you think.” - David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth
“It is worse, much worse, than you think.” - David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth
There's a reason all of these emissions are produced - it's pleasant to imagine that it's all about things that don't really matter - does some rich guy get a sports car or an econobox - but I genuinely don't believe it's that simple. Instead it's a series of complicated decisions about productivity, value and risk.