Indeed, you are right. The narrow specialisation enegendered by western educational systems means that very few step above the silos of their 'field' of knowledge to join the dots and take in a more wholistic view of the interconnections that need to be understood and that too, across space and time.

I wonder if the damn chemists who developed plastics or 'forever' chemicals, were aware of their harm when multiplied by billions over the course of 100 years.