That's easy to suggest and hard do. How are you going to change the behavior of entire populations? We are already trying education.
The "education" that gets the most funding is simple mis-direction away from supply-side pollution to consumer-blaming "solutions".
On a individual basis, I guess bringing up the issue more often is the best we can do really, I would definitely appreciate more environmentalism in politics discussions, but it feels very low-impact.
Well, to whom are businesses accountable currently? Shareholders.
Naive solution: make impacted communities shareholders.