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The fact is those in control most often value money and power in the immediate sense more than they care to be bothered by longer term problems. Some of it may be related to the generally short life of a human being influencing our ideas of long term importance and of course we rationalize everything from "What can I do?" to "I'll be dead and gone by then..." or the ever popular, "Relax, somebody will come up with a solution to that in the future, fusion is just around the corner..."
I've wondered more than a few times just how it would effect the decisions of those who really run things if they knew they were going to be around for a few hundred years longer... or were all compelled to leave progeny behind. Unfortunately, human nature being what it is, most at the top of the pyramid have very little care beyond themselves and their immediate circles or continuing to do what they did to get there. I suspect most are as caught up in their immediate worlds as we are in ours. Pity we can't all be caught up in the real world, or figure out how to work together to have greater impact. Maybe the simple fact is most do not embody the drive to do more than we must, or feel we truly need.
Or maybe it's that they have no idea what to do more than most of the rest of us do... It's easy to jump on the soap box and say we should stop doing this and start doing that, but a lot more complex to implement methods to accomplish those goals.
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