Well, it's not a catastrophe until it affects you. It needs to severely hit a critical mass of the population in developed countries; and by that time it may be too late.
Anything less than critical mass can be swept under the rug by governments until your term is over.
It's not usually an option, whether to have a government or not. And when it's deliberate, the motivation is invariably protection from somebody else's government.
You mean like global warming and how the climate change catastrophe we are experiencing has changed human behavior to stop polluting? <sarcastic mode>
I can't imagine that anything will change the minds of the majority of people to the point where they drastically change their lifestyles.