A bit of a controversial take, but I think the reason that this won’t get solved is the AGW movement. Rather than addressing things like pollution, waste, strip mining, environmental toxicity, and so on the green movement was hijacked to care about a single aspect of environmentalism because rich people could get even richer trading carbon futures.
> movement [X] was hijacked to care about a single aspect of [Y]
I think this is a symptom of a larger issue that has nothing to do with environmentalism. Global cultural consciousness is getting more centralized. There isn't as much room on any particular agenda for multiple facets of any one issue when everything is being bottle necked through a much more centralized cultural sphere.
