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In principle I agree but the problem is this has been left so long it's pretty much an emergency at this point.

If you see the fire start well you can ask everyone to leave the building in an orderly manner. But if it's ignored to the point it's already an inferno, firefighters aren't going to spend time being polite.

Personally I realised all this was coming a long time ago. Australia circa 1993-94, then read a lot of articles about the US situation in 2002. That doesn't mean it started then, that's just when I personally became aware and suffice to say I wasn't the first to work it out.

Plenty of governments have had the chance to fix it but failed to do so. That's where much of the objection to the focus on social causes and so on originates from - governments spending all their time on "nice to haves" in a manner akin to worrying about arranging the curtains meanwhile the place is actually on fire.

Australia's ultimately in the same situation. A huge reliance on selling fossil fuels and ore plus borrowing money underpinned by real estate. It's ultimately unsustainable and that being so it's a given it ends at some point - only real question is about the detail.