That's because those that should be doing something (the mass producers, global transit and 'elites') are busy trying to convince us it's all up to our individu

That's because those that should be doing something (the mass producers, global transit and 'elites') are busy trying to convince us it's all up to our individual efforts to reduce our personal footprints, which are insignificant, even at large numbers. It's mostly theatre. I would think a large economic crisis would stop progress on wasteful things like AI pretty quickly, but the large tech companies seem now in the category of 'too big to fail' so I'm not confident.