No, it's basic human nature to kick the can down the road, nothing exclusive to politicians.
You're wrong. When did I write that it was exclusive to politicians?
You're writing about a different phenomena, however.
You are referring to delaying investments in transitions that will be required AND procrastination.
That is fundamentally different than committing resources into deception and delay.
Humans due also have a tendency to procrastinate, as you mentioned.
This is separate from kicking the can down the road though.
Same for fossil fuels, "conventional sources" have already peaked and the cost of energy is just going to go up
Fossil fuels are still in ample supply and Nuclear technology is reliable, available, and an excellent replacement --- there is essentially no possibility of an alternative capable of being viable. Price increases with fossils are mainly due to inflation: US dollars are losing value, therefore it takes more of them to buy energy and other valuable commodities, we are not at a limitation of supply of fossils in the ground ---- limited supply during and after extraction due to artificial restriction: regulations pertaining to extraction and construction of new infrastructure, and limited transportation and processing infrastructure in the first place. Essentially... often overly-aggressive environmental regulations and excessive unnecessary government interference are to blame for the other part of the price issues with fossil fuels.
We are not running out of this stuff. Our government thinks it "knows best" and blockades the construction of new infrastructure needed to adequately deliver the supply, which is why prices are going up.
Nuclear technology can be improved further with more research --- which is not procrastination, research takes time, AND the sustained concerted efforts of limited size groups of people.
If IPv6 adoption was like the government's treatment of the economy:
(1) IPv4 would already have run out several years ago.
(2) Published statistics from the official IP address registries would still show that 50% of the IP address space has not been allocated yet.
(3) The registries, nervous about market sentiment would have masked the fact that IP addresses ran out.
However, all allocation requests would either take many months to process, or get kicked back, or rejected based on some technicality, SO the frontline story would be --- we have IP addresses (in theory), you just don't qualify for them. And at worse start issuing IP address allocations that don't exist such as 258.0.0.1/16, or start issuing the same groups of addresses to multiple entities; by searching for IPs that didn't seem to be actively in use at the moment.
(4) The entire Cable/DSL industry would have already moved to Carrier grade NAT and LISP
(5) The IP address registries would have announced a new program, under which they will solve the IP shortage and
promote internet growth, by finding random registrants and forcibly revoking/taking back 20% of their IP space a year,
especially /8 holders, and randomly handing it out to newcomers.
(6) They would have provided increased fees and costs for holding IP addresses per IP, and offered substantial $$$ incentives for returning IP addresses