Reply #12: It sounds like we're on parallel paths.

[GliderGuider]

I've been through what I call a "Dark Night of the Soul" brought on by educating myself in the true state of the world. I believe that the only way out of this depression and despair is to accept the world around us as it truly is, and then make all action personal.

My views on the intractability of consumption and other primary forms of human behaviour are based on evolutionary psychology (a field that more environmentalists would do well to study, IMO), and apply more to mass behaviour than to individuals. As you demonstrate, individuals can respond to new information and change their behavior, at least to some degree. Herd behaviour is harder to modify, though, and herd behaviour is what has caused The Global Clusterfuck.