Information takes time to disseminate to people. I think the transition happened "as fast as it could" given that people tend to oppose change, have a hard time

Information takes time to disseminate to people. I think the transition happened "as fast as it could" given that people tend to oppose change, have a hard time understand scientific results and science takes a long time anyhow. If anything I would say "we should educate more people". Because that is the only thing that might prevent the next "we shouldn't have waited..." (for any of the problems that we could solve, but people just don't think/understand them - like antibiotic microbial resistance and other topics)