Comment by myrmidon

From a purely rich western perspective it seems likely to me that OTHER people are going to pay much more than "the west" is going to: Wealth provides buffer against food shortages, lethal outdoor temperatures and sea level rise alike, and the regions that are going to suffer the most are also probably gonna be more like Bangladesh than Central Europe...

If your voters in general are not willing to pay the price for the damage they cause, what is a democracy supposed to do? Sad state of affairs.