Projecting your wants onto power aside, why would this ever happen? What would drive our government to do that? If there's no incentive, it's empty desire or b

Projecting your wants onto power aside, why would this ever happen? What would drive our government to do that? If there's no incentive, it's empty desire or based on some fantasy that government would suddenly operate in terms of what's best for society rather than a serious consideration of how power works. Why look to government to do that? Are examples of government pollution controls effective, or examples of greenwashing? For instance a lot of the Quebec forests that burned already contributed to those CO2 offsets by having someone say they wouldn't burn them, and yet...