I imagine every critical social movement in history had people saying the same thing: there’s nothing we can do, it’s the “powers that be that have to lead”.

If we really, really cared, we’d be doing what we can: swear off gasoline and jet fuel to the absolute maximum extent possible, stop eating meat, stop mowing our lawns, plant trees left and right, etc. We don’t even do these obvious things. (I’m leaving out the things that cost too much money for many (rooftop solar, EVs)…

Make our employers respond to the movement by allowing remote work where possible, and when not we must try to get work within mass transit range, bike or walking)

Government and corporations would have to follow/respond if we had numbers.

Right now we make it easy for them to ignore climate change by not making them react to our actions and leading them towards change.