To quote Glenn Reynolds, "I'll believe there's a crisis with the people who say there's a crisis act like there's a crisis." These are the people who lecture about sustainability but fly 1500 private jets into Davos in the age of Skype.
That said I do a lot of the right things for the "wrong" reasons: I recycle because I don't like wasting perfectly good resources, I take the train because that means I can code on my way to work (and I don't enjoy driving when tired) etc.
From an economic perspective, 1500 private jets (with crew and maintenance and fuel etc etc) are much better than a couple of developers and sysadmins to run Skype.
I'll believe there's a crisis with the people who say there's a crisis act like there's a crisis."
Some of them already are. You might want to pay closer attention:
http://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2015/jan/2...
Abstaining and vowing an ascetic life to practice what you preach only puts one at a disadvantage to the opposition.
Of course, the powerful who don't actually care about they solution are going to fly on jets no matter what.