It seems you've got things backward: if politicians can't get people onboard to prevent a catastrophe, how do you think they can't get them to limit the consequ

It seems you've got things backward: if politicians can't get people onboard to prevent a catastrophe, how do you think they can't get them to limit the consequences of such catastrophe? If they managed to act (or get people to), then they would have plan to mitigate. But in the US, we're still in the denial phase, so…