[paulcole]

Individual people are the only ones with the power to stop climate change. They’ve just chosen not to exercise that power.

To say that individual action is powerless to stop climate change is the same thing as saying that climate change will never be stopped. Which is true but nobody wants to hear it.

It’s much more fun to say that I am powerless to stop climate change so somebody else with more power than me must stop it! You can follow this chain all the way up to the most powerful person in the world.

[FireInsight]

It's true that collective action is just a congregation of individual action, but sadly the individuals with most power to change the climate–fossil fuel execs and the like–deem the continuation of their current practices too profitable to change.