> Spitting in an empty swimming pool to try and fill it?

With enough people spitting, that isn't a problem at all. Shame so many people are just standing back saying it can't be done instead of helping.

That's like a landslide were each pebble of dirt doesn't consider itself responsible for what's happening, on a bigger scale, even tho all the pebbles keep doing the same thing leading to bigger scale consequences in the first place.

Many a mickle makes a muckle, this applies to pretty much everything.

If everybody keeps acting like their individual contributions are completely meaningless, then nobody will change anything about their own ways and thus large scale change will remain a pipe-dream.

The vast majority of carbon emissions is out of individual control.

The longer you keep parroting this corporate propaganda, the more fucked we are. This needs strong government intervention, now.

Preferably paid for with massive, backdated windfall taxes on every company and shareholder that ever materially benefited from environmentally destructive companies.

Obviously not going to happen, but let's not pretend me or you are responsible for the industrial levels of pollution, and the last few decades of climate change denier lobbying, when those companies full well knew the damage they were doing.

> but let's not pretend me or you are responsible for the industrial levels of pollution

Let's instead pretend our chosen lifestyle of abundance and wastefulness doesn't factor into any of this at all?

Who do you think these companies are selling their products to? Thus financing their operations in the first place? Externalizing the blame for this solely on the industry, like consumers have zero responsibility or impact, might be convenient but imho it only serves to shift the blame from one party to the other and vice versa, so that ultimately nobody feels responsible and thus nobody starts acting.

To tackle this will require efforts on both ends. Because the industry will simply react by "There's demand for it, so we do it", while consumers go "The industry is doing it, somebody needs to force them to change, but don't you dare to inconvenience ME!".

Literally, nothing stops us from doing both: Being responsible consumers and properly regulating the industry.

I am. I doubt anything but direct action will have an effect though.