All of this is due to poor decisions regarding the free market; allowing environmental "idealism" to guide/cloud economic policy.
That's led to the current Administration's push for policies preventing oil, coal, and other natural resource exploitation in the USA in the name of "saving the planet." Meanwhile letting "developing nations" like China, India, and many others have a "free pass" thanks to "SJW guilt."
We have some of the most complex environmental protection laws on the books as is, we don't need to be the world's savior on our own.
What we really need is to unlock our access to all the vast natural resources we have available to us, while at the very same time use our "brain power" to develop alternative sources of energy, food, and other goods production.
Idealism is all well and good, but it doesn't feed, clothe, house, or allow the movement of resources to supply needs and wants.