I think partly it’s also that democracies aren’t great at longer term planning.

Like in my country there is a big election every 4 years and you have state elections in between. So any government needs to constantly appease the people to stay in power and do anything. It’s basically impossible for them to make and more importantly realise any plans that go beyond that 4/5 year timeframe.

And to solve something like climate change we would need to think in decades or centuries.