So we've got an axiom lock; a whole lot of people derive their status and prosperity from fossil carbon, and they're not willing to give it up. The cognitive process stops at "lower status" and "hell no".
The serious money has introduced a few more cases of axiom lock (the axiomatic construction of "man" as requiring owning women vs the idea that women are people with agency; the idea of money as material divine love vs accounting convenience) to keep the argument away from habitability.