The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
Most sports federations, corporations, and governments don't change voluntarily. Change is brought by the disenfranchised demanding better.
There are two types of change: the change we choose and the change that chooses us.
A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.
You can't help someone unless she wants to help herself. You can give her a nudge, but if she doesn't want to help herself, no one is going to be able to force her to do anything. I like that "attraction rather than promotion" approach.
You can't push and force people to do what they don't want to do. If things need to change, it has to be gradual.
Change can't be a compulsion. It has to happen organically.