I think a good number of "those people" fully expect to either be able to weather storm, or be entirely removed from it. They go to countries ruined by inequality and environmental disasters but they never see the results so they think everything is going to be gravy.
They don't get affected by anything else, so why should this be any different?
Exactly! Seems like this lot buy into the myth of the English/British landscape as envisaged by 19th century pastoral romantics and Capability Brown. Don't get me wrong, the Cotswolds is beautiful, but it's almost in spite of humans rather than because of us.
Bring back foreboding forests!