Expecting a billion people to individually do their research and make the correct decision for the greater good is not a very effective way to address collective action problems. When the market isn't pricing in externalities correctly governments should step in to correct the situation.

In the case of EVs they have. Western governments are spending piles of money to support EV adoption. Those subsidies help, but there are still significant drawbacks with the vehicles that make them a tough sell for many people.

This is such an incredibly put of touch take. Nobody cares about saving the world 100 years from now when its a decision between having the money to make rent or not this month. We on HN are a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the normal experience. Its fine to make your proclamations about what a far-seeing moral superman you are, but that choice costs you nothing on the scale of what it would cost someone making the median income.