They are motivated by people with money today, who plan on continuing to make money tomorrow, without competing with new technologies. Money is the motivation for everyone in the chain that is alive today, not worrying about those that live in a far tomorrow.

Agreed. There are a lot of people who would rather be a big fish in a small polluted pond than a small or middle-sized fish in a more competitive one. A lot of the objection 'globalism', 'green new scam', 'woke mind virus' is just atavistic dislike of outsiders manifesting as a desire for autarchy.