Oh shit thank you for reminding me. This idea that it’s our individual responsibility to prevent climate change rather than our largest producers/manufactures was a goddamn marketing ploy in the 1920s. It was spear headed by disposable companies like Dixie as people were getting more upset about littering, the public thought companies making one use items was incredibly wasteful and the reason for an abundance of litter in city areas. With the companies PR efforts, they were able to convince the general public that it’s not the producers of the litter that cause the problem, but the people who use it. We had a chance to kill the disposable industry and we missed it, I hope it comes back around some day.
This is true for democratic nations, but they’ve been feeling the hurt lately as representatives are being bought out by (you guessed it) billionaires. So even when it’s the governments failing, it’s usually some rich asshole pulling the strings behind them. Who would’ve thought a corrupt politician would need a sugar daddy.