[PavlovsCat]

> A more collectivist attitude appears, from my experience, to get people to be more thoughtful.

Doing something good today, just because of peer pressure, means a person might take part in a progrom tomorrow, for the same motivation. I'd rather say collectivism and thought are directly opposed.

> The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons.

-- Hannah Arendt, "On Evil"

And when it comes to large scale pollution, plastic flowing into the ocean, Asian nations at the very least don't seem any better than western industrialized ones, do they?