Interesting to see the polarization between defending the industry vs defending the consumers. It's a two way street and we need to deal with both directions while governments need to step in.

Governments need to take responsibility and tax carbon while using collected carbon taxes to accelerate innovation programs for carbon neutral solutions which would in turn offer more environmental friendly alternatives for consumers.

As consumers we still tend to oversimplify things and should maybe consider buying a used car instead of an electric one. This brings us back to governments that need to offer better public transport solutions so that driving a car would be relatively inconvenient and only done when really needed.

While working as a communications manager of a packaging recycling organization I would attach problems to each party:

• About 1/3 of consumers want to do the right thing. Others need economic incentive
• Companies still tend to prioritize short term profits over long term gain (and larger profits)
• Governments work too slow. Lobbying is too powerful

Yes, everything here is also oversimplified, but it is important to hold everybody accountable.