I think caring is the most important first step, and much of the "decline" (it's debatable) is due to people not caring and disregarding linguistic standards.

I think caring is the most important first step, and much of the "decline" (it's debatable) is due to people not caring and disregarding linguistic standards. By the way, in the sentence you wrote, people used to use the subjunctive mood, "I wish there were"; this "rule" seems to have gone the way of the dinosaur and "was" in place of the conditional "were" sounds so terribly wrong to me (probably because of the German "wäre").