Thank you, Mr. Cullen.
In fact, I often ask myself that question, and the only answer I come up with is that it's ideology. For one thing, they don't believe that climate change is really a problem. So why worry? They don't believe in these technologies, and I'm talking about a belief in the virtually religious sense of the word, when the whole world around us is doing it. They believe in one form of technology or industrial energy development only: the 19th century one based on fossil fuel. That is the only thing they seem to understand and to all appearances the only thing, budget after budget, that the government is prepared to support.