I totally disagree with this hypothesis.  “Like Exxon, Utilities knew about Climate Change risks decades ago” See my post on Facebook yesterday, 27 July. Climate change inaction is caused by: (1) Establishment conditioning views our planet as fodder for the taking with no intelligence, wisdom nor consciousness.  (2)  This conditioning has been reinforced by Jewish and Christian doctrine according to Genesis 1:26.  (3)  These two circumstances were exploited by Capitalism and expressed with the commandments; “profit first” and “grow or die” (4) All of the above were supported by the failure of our species to develop an “enoughness” gene.  The lack of this ability is expressed by what we call greed revealed as anti-social behaviour bordering on the psychopathic.  Lastly, from this state of being in the world, we will not honour and protect that which we do not love and most of the rich and powerful do not view Earth as lovable.

“Climate change is an existential risk that could abruptly end human civilisation because of a catastrophic “failure of imagination” by global leaders to understand and act on the science and  evidence before them.”

http://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-07-26/a-failure-of-imagination-on-climate-risks/