Curbing excessive consumption is the environmental remedy failing most badly

Evidence

I devoted special attention to the influential role of moral disengagement in impeding environmental sustainability because of the increasingly urgent need to alter human practices that are rapidly and irreversibly degrading the habitability of the planet. Wasted decades of unproductive United Nations summitry have shortened the time available for adopting measures to forestall devastating, human-caused environmental changes. There is some progress in two of the three key remedies, slowing the rate of global population growth and shifting energy production from fossil fuels to renewable sources. The third remedy—curbing wasteful, excessive consumption—is not only failing but is worsening. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2985

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claimed progress on population growth and renewables is worth verifying against current aggregate trend data.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2985
• XREF: connects to: Unlimited consumption produces misery, making rationing a workable solution rather than immiseration. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2194