Living in a gradual world

I am a believer of gradual improvement and also the negative gradual effect of habits and life style.

Our world is so based on it. Nothing in nature, at least from my point of view, happens 
instantaneously unless there's is a major contributing event that changes the course of natural progression.

Examples are climate change and plastics waste. If we analyze each one of these undesirable conditions we will find that it required ages of small increments of negative behavior to reach this tipping point.

So the question is, Why we were so slow to start fixing such a condition although we were seeing it happening under our noses?

To be continued.

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