Before we can even get to addressing making the correct choices, we need to expand the universe of potential solutions that people even bother to consider. Tha

Before we can even get to addressing making the correct choices, we need to expand the universe of potential solutions that people even bother to consider. That’s the hard but doable task of counterbalancing the widespread consumerist propaganda (advertising) with awareness and practice making and repairing things, and working against learned helplessness. We need to ensure that people consider cooking instead of going to a restaurant, changing a flat tire instead of calling roadside services, using a screwdriver to tighten up a wobbly chair instead of replacing it, repairing a ripped seam instead of throwing out a garment ... None of these things are particularly challenging, but they’re so far outside many peoples’ experience that they may as well be impossible. Many people will still decide to have a professional do these things for them, but it’ll at least be a proper choice instead of being forced into it by circumstance.