It's a part of human nature that first we over exploit everything around us then after it starts depleting rapidly then there are instances of long foul cries. The case of environmental pollution is no different at all. Before some important global conventions like Kyoto Protocol and Montreal Accords we turned a deaf ear towards the environmental issues and only after that when the signatory countries are forced to follow the rules so are its citizens.
But All thanks to moral policing and national as well as global awareness towards the rising Carbon Footprints have started being tamed specially by the pre world war industrialized countries who used to be also the major contributors of Environmental Pollution.
But at your personal as well as organizational level you can simply adapt some practices to minimize carbon Footprints like-