Why is it worthy of respect to go against your own interest? By making energy energy more expensive all you have done is taking a step further towards ex keepi

Why is it worthy of respect to go against your own interest? By making energy energy more expensive all you have done is taking a step further towards ex keeping 1 billion people in energy poverty because you are making it more expensive for them. Denmark have invested heavily in wind over the last 40 years, as a replacement yet it only covers 8% of it's energy needs. We don't need to curb climate change, we just need to control the consequences of it which we have done historially using fossil fuels. The idea that the climate before the industrial revolution was some perfect equilibrium and that our emissions are a grave danger to the world is simply not historically true. What is true is that what used to be a dangerous storm today can be a setting for a romantic dinner because humans have been able to invent ways to control the consequences of climate leading to much fewer people dead from it.