govt facing future problems

Trying to solve the current problems without a foresight for the future ones, can lead even the most effective governments to head into a plethora of headaches for the future. To constantly keep focusing on where you place your footing will give you no clue as to where you are heading. One can shift attention between the horizon to see where the path is leading and the terrain one is treading to have a robust grip on the road as well. That way we can minimize the potential puddles and potholes that we encounter on the way to our destination, instead of just wandering only avoiding them as they come.
Of the many problems that governments and society as a whole is facing today, it is easy to get hung up on just solving those few, that have a more immediate consequence if left to itself. For example, a country like India facing a power crisis is more or less, inclined to dig up its coal and oil reserves, in order to meet with the demand of its growing industrial sector so as to boost up the lagging economy. But by doing so, it is opening up a portal to a new set of problems including deforestation and wildlife reduction. In order to solve the current issue it has raised a few, for it to resolve in the future. When logically, the proper course should have been to consider the ramifications of the action that have been decided upon, before actually following them through.
Evidently, in my opinion, no government can focus on the immediate problems overlooking the same that may potentially arise in the future.