What bothers me is now that our economy is collapsing, this is the time to turn this around. However, our leaders are busy trying to figure out how to keep it growing.
Our economy is taking us to global disaster.
Why are leaders not listening?

The repurcussions brought forth by global economic crisis should be the concern of most developed countries, but for third world nations where economic crisis is synonymous with life such a concern pales in what repurcussions might be brought forth by climate change. while poor countries can certainly weather an economic crunch, that is not equally true with what disasters caused by climate change can bring enormous suffering to people already suffering from economic crisis.

Cleaning up technology requires increased capital expenditures - surplus capital has been destroyed by Fed money manipulations and shortsighted behavior by large corporate financial institutions, which are now indistinguishable from government (a system sometimes identified as State Socialism or Corporate Socialism, of which Fascism was a particular sub-type). In this environment, the power centers will be desperately trying to preserve the status quo, at all costs - action from the center on the “environment” becomes increasingly unlikely - virtually impossible - any apparent action will be fake, done only for show. Only alternative, decentralized action by diverse people and groups can be effective now, until the old, decadent system collapses of its own weight, and new systems and social relationships can evolve to replace it. FORGET about conventional politics for the foreseeable future.