What are you going to do? The environment is an issue and its degradation is going to cost us all a lot of comfort, money, jobs...etc in the future, so we have start taking measures now.
People need to work, but they can't be put to work in a way that will harm them and others in the now possible near future.
Seems like this is a theme for all human life right now: we are picking and choosing what is best rather than simply taking the first most aggressive route.