All very profound to this point:
I'm not sure that we are all at odds with it, many people I know are in ignorance of it. Their world is plastic packed, hermetically sealed and 'dropped' at their door, they have no idea of where things come from, nor the effect they are having. The supply chain from China is far too long.
Some friends of ours marched, disgusted, out of a farm shop because they couldn't get the veg they could at Sainsbury's. It was out of season and our local supermarket flies it in from Kenya at the expense of the local people and hippo population. Now they have plastic packed pre washed veg delivered as they arrive home in immense Mercedes. Lovely people, consumers to the core. Sometimes we talk about this, and in a small way, they change their habits.
Whilst huge choice, convenience and £2000 TVs with a life expectancy of 5 years are offered, most will take it. I try not to, but sometimes the temptation defeats me and I sit with something in my hand thinking - will I ever need this? Just for a moment I am in ignorance of my needs and am sucked in by shiny packaging,sometimes I think it should have photos of all the faces of those who REALLY have to pay to produce it.
We will always need to take things, but as Ray Mears says, now it is time to fulfill our part of the bargain, however that may be.
One way for those of us who drive is:
http://www.carbonneutral.com/shop/results.asp?cat1=Driving
It eases my guilt.
This all is of course, all in my humble opinion. I'd hate for poeple to tell me what to eat, drive or buy, but if everyone knew, would everyone make the 'right' decision? Somebody will tell me off now.