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I don`t think that pointing fingers at anyone is a solution, we should just forgive the young lady for being ignorant and hope she learns that blaming others and giving them guilt trips is far less productive than doing something constructive.
What`s interesting is that in the old days there wasn`t the technology or science for "green" (leaded gas and no catalysts, no filters for coal factories, no waste water treatment, no studies done on different health hazzards) but there was the keeper mentality, people wanted quality stuff to keep and not just to throw away everything that`s "not new anymore".
Over here we used brown paper bags only for bread, instead of plastic bags we had either baskets or linen bags for other stuff and it was much more comfortable to carry around. I know that nowadays I can`t carry heavy plastic bags for a mile, those things really start to burn into my fingers.
Nowadays we have the technology and know-how for going green, but just like this has developed, so has commercial know-how. And companies just won`t build something to last when they can sell one-time-use products or other things that break sooner, so they can sell you another one and make more profit. And the governments get tax money from these companies, so most of them don`t really think of reducing consumption because this tax money helps keep them afloat in their humongous debts. At least the US government isn`t pretending to be green, they didn`t sign the Kyoto protocol.
So it`s on us to do it and educate those who want to be educated, mainstream "green" is mostly just to be nice and dandy, while where it is for real and is making progress, I applaud those places.
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