I mean, there is some responsibiliy in it. My demand for products played a role in incentivizing their behaviour and such. I completely agree that the biggest part of the blame goes to those who actively made those decisions but even then, they are in a system that encourages highest possible profits above all else. Industries will conform to the regulations and only the regulations that they are required to. They will pollute as much as they can if it saves money, they will cut costs in waste disposal if they can and this is all because there is a profit motive to do so. Despite the fact that in a few hundred year's time it will likely cost use gravely or even just externalize costs on the short term. We are using a system of economics which completely incentivizes behaviour that is damaging to other people. We are literally destroying the oceans for the sake of nominal GDP. It has reached the point of cult behaviour. Our economies, in reality, are highly destructive in their current states.

They drive pollution of every single kind, the cause cost cutting measures that reduce quality and harm people, they are driving over fishing, they drive destructive farming practices, global warming, etc. Economies are supposed to be a way of managing resources that betters our lives. Economics is essential in properly valuing goods so we can most efficiently use them but it has reached the point that we are actively harming ourselves, likely even our overall GWP, by making these short term, destructive decisions.

Our current systems are dog shit when you account for externalized costs. It is like a cult mantra to externalize costs, as if the only thing that matters is dollar value despite the fact that rivers are now polluted and destroyed because of some of those behaviours. We are so incredibly delusional about what we ae doing.