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A conspiracy is always possible of course, but people really do tend to put off what isn't an immediate problem until it's a disaster.
Fukushima springs to mind. The plant had been warned more than a decade before the disaster that an earthquake in the wrong place would result in catastrophe and didn't do anything about it, and lo and behold...