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I'm sorry to be so blunt, but this is pure 100% Grade A bullshit. Individual action isn't going to detectable move the needle at this point, and claiming otherwise is actively harmful. The only thing that you as an individual can do is lobby your politicians to enact systematic change at the national and global level.

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> The only thing that you as an individual can do is lobby your politicians

Do you have any specific tips on how to lobby the politicians?

Call, write, donate to those parties proposing carbon taxes, join advocacy groups for the same, form or join an interest group. Join an opinion polling group and give answers.

What if none of our politicians want to do that and just promote populism giving everybody voting on them money for having more kids ?

Promoting consumtion even more and selling out country treasures (land, forests) to pay for loans ?

And if you try to create new party to promote "not fitting" slogans, you disappear or have "an accident"..

World is a shithole now. Only way is to run away from all of this but not everyone has such possibility and there is not many places to run to.

Here's a link to one lobbying org whose mission I believe in.

https://citizensclimatelobby.org/

I don't believe lobbying as an individual is effective either. We need to participate in combined lobbying efforts to maybe exert an influence a fraction as strong as the thinly veiled (and occasionally outright) bribery committed by giant corporations and sociopathic billionaires.

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