Our national Pupose Is Kaput

I think our biggest problem today is we can no longer solve our problems. Think of some dilemma we had a few years back. Is it gone? still there ?or is it worse? Think of this scenario. Ever walk into a pizza parlor, and stare at the huge stack of pizza boxes? Card board. Once was a tree. Dwell on the carbon foot print here. Logging, transport. grinding, chopping, pulping, making into card board. Printing, delivery. You get the idea. How long is it's useful life? Drop the pie in, take it home, slide the pie out, wham into the garbage. What a waste of energy and resources. How much carbon went in the atmosphere? Now what if the powers to be got an idea. Simple solution. Eliminate the box. Made it illegal to make, sell ,or transport a pizza box. Each customer would supply his own carrying devise. An insulated box. Use it, wash it. Have it ready for the next time. Yeah, go ahead and propose something like this. Try to imagine the repercussions. Might even have rioting in the street. You can't get the populace to make even the smallest of sacrifice for the common good. This is an allegory, but you can apply like solutions to any of our problems. The results keep coming up negative. Maybe I'm getting cynical. I hope you younger folks have better thoughts. I hope better ideas too.