Eventually we're all gonna suffer if we don't actively take steps to make the world cleaner.

Right! Pollution is often thought of as a local issue, until the winds shift or there are large fires or something, and then suddenly people who normally have a clean neighborhood are suffering and realize what others have had to put up with for years. I think the lockdown times from the pandemic showed some people really how bad it is, because the air cleaned up in places where it hadn't been so for a long time due to factories being shut down. Hopefully it motivated more people to keep things clean long term.