It's a bit like you'd say: I prefer to think about my fellow beings as mammals not consumers. They sure are but that's beside the point.
Citizen has no meaning in context of economy (except for taxation). So using it in context of economic activity mixes up two unrelated things.
Bad actors in the economy tend to exploit such mix ups to shift the burden away from them.
Read up on introduction and promotion of the concept of individual carbon footprint. Or the reality of recycling which was promoted as alternative to producers of plastic being directly responsible for introducing plastic into the environment.
