I submit that it may be lack of individual responsibility which is being heavily encouraged by our present civilization.

A command-and-control structure of government relies on public media geared to diminish, rather than increase, individually responsible behavior, aided by religions that essentially do the same. In our rather unconscious state we find ourselves unable to challenge the centrally determined course of resource exploitation, polluting fossil-fuel based energy technologies, and outdated modes of transportation.

The way out of this? Realizing that WE are the ones who make up humanity, and that only we have the power to change things. As strange as it may seem, we must start owning the present situation. We helped create it. Only by acknowledging that as a fact can we begin to plot for needed change.