Absolutely. Nowhere is the perversion of incentives more clear than in places where we hope people will act from their heart and their genuine concern, because

Absolutely. Nowhere is the perversion of incentives more clear than in places where we hope people will act from their heart and their genuine concern, because they are out-competed by the economic forces of easy, cheap, fast money. This phenomenon is also visible with regard to single-use plastics, as much a stretch as that may seem: why buy things that can be re-used indefinitely, and passed on to next generations, when money is such a hot potato? Better (rationally) to trade money for cheap plastic things from the other side of the world.