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All right, but blaming the mass media is not much more helpful. What do suggest - nationalize it all?

Of course the public was (and is!!) the culprit. Only the individual "footprint" is so small that almost nobody does something.

Real structural changes are hard to enforce. There is always something more pressing, just look e.g. at the 100 billion Germany spends on war (how many trees that would give?). As a politician it would be the end of the career if you tried to enforce something really drastic (and so nobody does it, incl. "the greens").

> The public sucks the glass teat of mass media

Ok I'll blame them for that then.