If people tend to do things because they have to or because "now it's high priority" then it makes sense for them to be forced to do things because of this imperative that it has to break or become urgent first in to do get some love or maintenance.

Unfortunately almost the opposite is needed "keeping an eye and everything" and can't wait until things break to try fix them (too late) or when the soil it full of toxics or plastics it's also too late to try grow something...

The Way of "Do the Urgent-only / "High Priority stuff first" doesn't work... everything needs topping up and doing / starting...

(TLDR = it's all a priority and part of the same whole eco-system)