It is worse than that, the incumbent politicians don't want to be seen as 'lefties', and there is a lot of people with money with a vested interest in burning m

It is worse than that, the incumbent politicians don't want to be seen as 'lefties', and there is a lot of people with money with a vested interest in burning more oil and coal. I think individuals changing behaviour is hopeless, but taxes that make doing the wrong thing expensive (and vice versa) is probably the only way, but politicians don't want to do that.