Without getting into any political sides, it's just the human condition to be wasteful, and nothing is going to change that. It's not because the person is necessarily bad, rather the human mind is not curious enough to think about the connections that you talked about. Whenever I turn on the hot water I realize how much power it takes to heat that water up and I try to not use it as much. But the vast majority of people, 99% will not make such a connection.