Negligence.

Negligence.
You can be incarcerated for the above word, depending on the circumstances.
Basically, you can be imprisoned for not caring. Sometimes. It's really all in what you don't care about - you can only be punished for not caring that someone is about to kill somebody else, or something of a like magnitude.
But what about the people who don't care about the environment? The ones who water their emerald lawns during a drought, refuse to recycle, and leave lights and heat on 24/7? Where's their punishment as the words on everyone's lips seems to be "global warming"? (Actually, we're entering a period of cooling, most experts say, and everything is cyclical, but the fact that the human race has negatively impacted the planet still remains). The people who don't care about the environment don't have to answer for it, even as this exact neglect is what keeps environmental harm from being a 'social problem'.
A social problem, by the way, is generally defined as a phenomenon regarded as bad or undesirable by a significant number of people, or a number of significant people, who then mobilize against it. So, yes, a number of significant people have begun to raise awareness about the scary monster "global warming", but Gore and his disciple diCaprio can preach until they're blue in the face until enough people, hopefully a majority, take up the cause.
There are other problems in our society other than the ever-popular environment. Homelessness is one (that I've previously discussed), but one that I find fascinating is government accountability.
No, I am not going to rant about how corrupt politicians are, because I am targeting the citizen this time. We bitch and moan about 'political accountability' (so much so that it became a major part of Obama's campaign) and yes, it is essential in a democracy that the elected officials properly and honestly represent the people. What I find astounding, however, is that barely anyone (among the everyday masses) shows up to keep them that way.
Recently I was watching a documentary entitled "Why We Fight" and I wasn't aware that Bush eventually admitted in a press conference that Iraq was not necessarily to blame for 9/11. Well, I know it was an Al Queda attack, which is in no way directly associated with Iraq, but what shocked me is not that Bush didn't originally admit that, it was people's reactions to it. They were absolutely appalled that the "wool had been pulled over their eyes", and that their patriotism and united front against Iraq, questing for retaliation for 9/11, was all for naught. I realize that the most likley reason the US targetted Iraq is in the name of economic Imperialism, and now most people do too, but just the fact that no majority really questioned the motives for going into Iraq originally was shocking for me. More shocking was that people could be so disgusted with their government.
Yes, the government did use your call for justice against you, but where were you to question them? Where was the citizen to hold the government accountable? I believe that as much as it is the responsibility of elected officials to be accountable to the people they're representing, it is also the responsibility of the citizen to question them. It is part of being a "citizen" of a country to involve yourself in it, and sometimes that means keeping the government honest. I assume that eventually people did speak up, or Bush never would have admitted what he did, but it was too late, the US had become involved in Iraq, and the rest is history.