The largest cause is the burning of fossil fuels. Who champions that? Who's lobbying to keep us on that form of energy?
They are the source of the continued worsening of it since the 90s
Guess you're right. If you see someone being mugged, you have no responsibility to help, and if you were talking to the mugger and pointed to the old lady and suggested that would be easy mark, no fault on you, you didn't do a thing.