That's basically my point, as well. However, I'd say that most people (maybe, being generous, through no fault of their own) fall into the "myopic and ignorant" category. If you look at the general discourse surrounding the reduction of fossil fuels, it focuses on consumer-level transportation and other consumer-based strategies that, at best, only marginally reduce one's impact. These problems are structural in nature, but many people perform certain rituals and engage in practices that signal a desire to fix things, yet nothing substantive is ever achieved. Much of modern politics is based on good will and aesthetic markers of which tribe one belongs to: these things don't create change and certainly not fast enough to do anything meaningful for the problem at hand.