So our kids grow up with litile negarive thoughts on our depenpencancy on fossil fuels. It sounds bad but, it is true.
Invisible consequences are to blame.
When it does not directly affect us, we rarely think about it - it's the way we're built. Our instinctual defenses operate on our senses as their main source of information. If those senses fail to detect the residues in the air left over after we see exhaust dissipate, it is easy enough to discount the fact that the junk is still out there, just waiting to be breathed in. In essence, it becomes 'Someone else's problem'. One sterling example of this was a recent quote from the Mayor of Almota, the new capital as of last Saturday of Khazakhstan.