Thanks for sharing your thoughts; we are Kings of Convenience, trying to minimise the individual energy expenditure to the detriment of the planet, and made easy through an anonymised global society.

What comes to mind is Ernst Friedrich Schumacher's "Small is beautiful", rooted in Leopold Kohr's work. In small communities, the effect of one's action have a more immediate return. I remember, growing up in a village in Austria, my father would buy farm implements through the local blacksmith at a slightly higher price than from a corporate dealer; it was about the support of the local infrastructure we relied upon, like a call-out on Sunday morning to fix something, and it was tangible. In a more anonymous, global society, people are more prepared to exert economic pressure on some producer thousands of miles away.