>For every person doing an ecologically responsible thing (taking trains instead of planes, taking public transit instead of driving, etc), there is just such a huge magnitude of people doing the "wrong" thing to cancel it out, largely because that (from a short-term-pragmatic-standpoint, the "wrong" thing is better) or at least cheaper. If you value your time at all, flying across the country is cheaper, meat is readily available and inexpensive (and typically taste good), and driving to work is substantially easier than biking.

It only takes a small percentage of the population to make a systematic change[0], I hope for humanity we are reaching a tipping point on this. People living their life in the correct way is spreading awareness and they are putting their money where their mouth is. These people and the youth climate strike may be our last chance. Also, the environment is the number one issue for the democratic party in the 2020 election. But, I do agree eventually these people making these changes will have to drive government agendas and the real mass changes will have to happen that way.

[0]http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of...