It's the same everywhere. Gun control discussions, nuclear power plant safety, anti-terrorism measures... it's a long list. Suddenly, governments and societies want action and funding there, where before no need was seen, when the actual situation didn't change.
(However, in the case of climate change, it might be just to late to steer things properly when the effects become clear.)
I think the problem is that humans (or most animals, I guess) are just reacting to stimuli around them 99% of the time. So if something bad happens, we tend to waste time and resources making sure that same exact thing won't happen again when life is adapting so much that chances are something new will happen next time.
In fact, we are plenty good at imagining disasters that could conceivably happen. Most of them never do; if we put our efforts into imagined disasters, we wouldn't have time to do anything about the real ones. The way we tell which is which is, necessarily, to wait and see what actually happens, then take steps to guard against similar disasters in the future. Reality is smarter than we are. We need to pay more, not less, attention to what it tells us.
Something like this.
The cynic in me thinks it's cheaper for society to just let it happen instead of using tons of money on teaching citizens to get away from windows in the unlikely event of a meteor.
How many citizens do you think would get away from windows if they receive an SMS telling them to? And how many who weren't at the windows would go stand in the window to look at the great shiny thing?
Eventually when technologically we will be advanced this will/can be prevented.
Same with toilets, few hundred years ago we had none in apartments, now without one someone might die :D
I might be one of these people who would make whatever means to see meteor after warnings/announcements to go in underground bases(aka evangelion).
Newspapers and TV.
I think there should be something like the WD40 and Duct Tape saying... maybe "All governments need in this world is Media coverage and Committees. Media coverage to make things happen and Committees to prevent things from happening. "
Outside the TV box I see no action.