> Using less is always an individual choice. But not a realistic one to expect 8 billion+ people to take. That's also why fossil fuel usage is still increasing.

Thanks. This mindset is not always made this explicit.

That it is an individual-choice is just as true as the claim that it is a choice made by governments, corporations, non-profits, executives, etc. But this atomized fiction is the only one that is given focus. Why?

You said it yourself: the perspective is not even conducive to making any change! (“not a realistic...”) We can’t expect 8 billion to make atomized decisions for the betterment of the planet.

But that’s not what people with this mindset want. They want a scapegoat that (conveniently) cannot change. Or they want an excuse to keep doing what they are already doing. Because hey the entities “that are doing it” cannot change in the aggregate.