After listening to Professor Edwin's complaints, Li Wei knew where his problem lay.
As he had said before, at its core, this was a political problem, not a technical one.
And political problems had only one yardstick.
How to raise their priority.
Most government employees were not simply occupying their posts and doing nothing, nor were they collecting salaries without working. But one thing mattered greatly to them: the order of priorities. This was also why different departments had clearly defined responsibilities. Everyone handled their own area and only needed to concern themselves with their particular field, leaving the final decisions to their superiors.
Unfortunately, the Empire currently had no organization resembling an environmental protection agency. If you asked ordinary government employees to make environmental protection their highest priority, they certainly would not do it.
Otherwise, who would be responsible if something went wrong? Who had authorized them to do this? Who did they think they were? Bypassing the chain of command was unacceptable anywhere.
Besides, cleaning up and overhauling the environment of all Fog City was no minor task like patching up a road. It required coordinated action across multiple departments. Could some low-level government employee accomplish that? With what, his head? Something like this absolutely required instructions from above. At most, all he could do was report the issue to his superiors. Whether they acted on it was not something a minor employee could decide.
Not to mention that most people had no interest in pushing it forward, for a very simple reason: there was nothing to gain.
This did not merely mean money. Even politically speaking, there was no benefit.
As the saying went, all the bustle of the world was for profit; all its restless movement was in pursuit of gain.
Naturally, Li Wei had ideas