What a mess we have made for ourselves. There isn't enough cotton, hemp, wool and leather to supply all of humanity with clothing. Every poyester blend shirt, sock and sweater sheds microplastics into the environment with every wash.
Car tires wearing away contribute the most, ev or not.
Our single use packaging food system creates an enourmous endless stream of plastics.
It's but one facet of many of our demise.
Like yelling fire in a crowded theatre. No politician is going to do it until they are out of the theatre. Antonio Gutterez, the UN secretary general is as close as we've come.
Still, through /r/collapse and the popularizers on you tube, the message is out. Everybody with the capacity to know already knows with the exception of children who are still developing the capacity to understand. Even a lot of children know where we stand.