I can't help feeling that on an enormous scale, someone is taking the p*$£ out of us all over the reasonably serious matter of the continuous destruction of our environment.
Don't confuse what I am saying, I am all for awareness and education and we should all be playing our part to help reduce the damage we are doing and give the planet a chance to try to recover - after all we are ALL responsible. In fact, that is exactly my point. Why are people such as you and I being made to feel as though we are directly responsible for the destruction of the Earth's delicate ecological balance, when all the time the fat cat, greedy money grabbing corporations are sitting back on their fat arses on huge super comfortable over indulgent arm chairs smoking enormous Cuban cigars and drinking the finest Brandy that money can buy?
It seems to me that it is the businesses that need to be making the most concerted effort to reduce the damage. Businesses should be forced to invest far more heavily in renewable sources for their products, it should be illegal to use materials that are not bio-degradable or 100% recyclable. This is where the concentration of efforts should be, not making the little guy feel guilty for watching the TV and having the lights on at the same time (shock horror). It's big business that should feel guilty about wasting huge amounts of electricity and other resources and producing huge quantities of waste and pollution to manufacture their products.
Energy companies should be making more of an effort to produce energy from renewable resources and making this energy more freely available (i.e. it should be cheaper to obtain electricity from Wind Turbine based generator than from the fossil fuel or nuclear powered generators). Businesses should be doing everything they can to encourage and assist us to be more environmentally friendly, not offering half-arsed advice on how we can turn off the many appliances that we use to make life just a little easier (appliances manufactured by the very companies that are offering this advice, I might add), in a pathetic effort to look like they give a vague shit about anything other than money.
This needs to start with businesses, rather than blaming us mere, insignificant consumers.