[tejohnso]

> having a car, consuming cheap electricity, getting plastic toys from China delivered across the globe the next day and spending your holiday at the other end of the world is what destroyed the planet.

And any attempts to move away from that paradigm are heavily lobbied against by entities like Shell. It's hard to change habits, even harder to get an entire culture to change, and harder still when the change is being actively countered.

[danbruc]

And even then, should you not be more mad at the politician that took the money? As I wrote, I am with everyone who considers that bad or maybe even evil behavior, but without a lot of other people from consumers, to voters and politicians this would all have played out differently. Putting all the blame on Shell and friends might be convinient, but it is also lazy and dishonest.