Gadarene - I cannot agree more, the biggest problem for me - to reconcile with the idea people (of many industrialised countries take US as an another example) are ok with the WASTING mentality in their culture.

A very good move would be to CHARGE for the utilities, gas and electricity, set taxes on petroleum (%300 like in the UK is a good start)! Guess what has helped europeans to become wore climate and environment aware.

Then the revenue could be used to subsidise renewable resources, like solar panels (which lets be honest make sense in the Gulf countries); electric trains and so on...