Quote from Harald A. Friedl on 31. January 2020, 14:26

People who are engaged in sustainability, may it be in consuming in general, in transport or classical tourism, are suffering, most of them, from a sickness called naivity. They tend to believe that "if only..." those and these powerful people or specific target groups "would do..." this and that, and "everything would become fine.

That's - I am terribly sorry - nonsense. Everybody who invests a bit of his time into reflection how one hibehaves, what motives are behind someones behaviour, what role power, desire and all other factors of motivation plays, then it becomes pretty absurd to believe something like the following idea:

The industry, after having invested a big mount of money into the development of products which are easy to sell in order to make a lot of money, should now decide:
"Oh, how bad we are! We shouldn't sell that! We should convince the consumer (whoever this may by) to buy products which are much more expensive, packed without any shiny and pretty plastic, and which operate for a very long time instead of getting damaged due to obsolescence... So also in times when fashions are already changed and the consumer is looking for new products helping him to gain symbolic capital...

As far as I have seen, critical people tend to become priests or monks instead of entrepreneurs who develop products to make money...

To come to the point: Hoping is not very helpful. The industry follows systemic conditions. Well adapted entrepreneurs will survive, which means: They "sustain" on the "environment" of their market, and it is their consumers which are a crucial part of their (social) environment.
So what we need is a change of framework: New laws, new regulations of the market.
The idea of the "free market who regulates everything" is dead. It has been de-masked as bullshit because the free market only swaps out internal costs to others, especially environmental costs. It is the future generation who pays for them, and those parts of the world population who haven't taken profit at all from this business.

But that's the way it is. So the big question is: How to kick governments in their.... in order to make them sustainability-compatible regulations?

My suggestion is: By social pressure, by civil disobedience, by many many Greta Thunbergs who are forcing governments to create sustainability-compatible regulations, to force the industry to create and market sustainability-compatible products - and finally to force the mass of consumers to start to think if they need all that trash that is offered to them promising some instants of bought happyness...

Networks like this, that's my conclusion, are no adquate instrument to mobilize people...