Both sides of the American debate overdo their arguments and talk endlessly about it which enables idiots like Trump to harm the environment and prevent useful projects to somewhat minimize the damage due to pollution and climate change. Americans have a history of dealing with industrial polluters and safety concerns a little late in the game on the principal of letting the profit seeking corporations use self control which many do not. Love Canal, Three Mile Island, one of the recent big power outages that hit US/Canada, flooding, etc etc are often under the watch of corporations seeking a short term buck. Canada occasionally has the same problems but you guys tend to have spectacular failures in this regard. Even when we allowed a Quebec town to be destroyed by an unsafely operated train, it was owned and operated by a US firm. The power outage that killed the grid was entirely due to a mediocre US firm, took the power out for us for days. So US problems often impact on us.
Coincidentally, it's for similar reasons you have outrageous medical insurance bills. At least that issue hits home and compels Americans to know it's a man made, systematic problem that they will pay for every year until it gets addressed not endlessly debated.
