Every industry ever is going to externalize all the costs you allow it to externalize. The individual responsibility is to vote for representatives that preven

Every industry ever is going to externalize all the costs you allow it to externalize. The individual responsibility is to vote for representatives that prevent such externalization through regulation, and to stand behind such regulation even if it is slightly inconvenient (plastic drinking straws) or somewhat costly (gas, flights). The biggest problem is that a significant part of the global population is not willing to make even the smallest sacrifice in lifestyle towards such a goal (=> this is often difficult to see if you are in a more left/green bubble, but i absolutely true of the average citizen). We, as voters, have expressed so little care for climate and environment sustainability that politicians don't even bother catering towards that niche any more. In the US there was an super obvious choice 25 years ago in the US between genuine, ambitious sustainability and some generic politician not even half as competent as his father, and we all saw the outcome; politicians since barely even bother pretending to be concerned about climate sustainability because voters just don't care.