Spot on, the bold part especially. This is what gets miscommunicated and misinterpreted in the overall planet stewardship message.
If everyone consumed a little less it would go along way. Human consumerism is and has been out of control. It used to be unique to America but now it's global.
Everything has to be new - either by personal choice or capitalist design - and only in small pockets are things reused consistently. Electronic products, toys, clothes, and literally everything we consume. We've been conditioned that way for a few generations now. You feel like if you don't consume the way others do, you're missing out, or your kids are missing out. When in reality a lot of it is materialistic, meaningless bullshit.
Fine, don't go full green. At least try to consume less - one less red meat meal a week, restore/repair/reuse things as much as you can instead of just trashing it, turn down shitty plastic made-in-China trinkets your corporate office insists on giving you as "thanks" for helping their profitability last quarter when in reality the Executive Team's wives just got another 200 cc's pumped into their chest and a new Range Rover; don't give into every demand your kid makes just because their little snotrag friend from class says he has a personal alexa, iphone, ps5, beats headphones and you dont want them to be left out - whatever, anything.
Or don't, because freedom or whatever