I have to agree I just didn't know how to word it correctly.
I'm all for stewardship, I try my part to recycle and not use my car and to be less throwaway, and have tried going vegetarian in attempts of environmental activism, but the fact of the matter is that that just won't do anything. Just
100 or so companies are responsible for 71% of emission gases released since 1988, so Jo Ann from accounting deciding to forgo plastic does absolutely nothing to help the issue, and is the equivalent of your boat flooding in the ocean and you using a thimble to try to get rid of the water.
I see any attempt of getting the common man to "just take less showers and use less water" as another attempt of people holding the common person accountable, when in reality whether or not I take two or three showers a day has little to no impact on addressing climate change issues. The narrative that people are wasteful and just need to buckle down more is spun by media and science lobbying groups who don't actually want to tackle the real causes behind the issue; why would they when they could just pin it on suburbia and they can get away with it?
Some things you can actually do to help mildly would be to help plant trees in tropical and temperate climates. A dense, rich ecosystem of plantlife in temperate and tropical areas of earth help to increase albedo in the area, helping to reflect the sunlight back into the ozone rather than being absorbed and increasing the temperature in the surrounding area. Trees and plants helps to consume carbon dioxide while providing rich oxygen, which has seen great benefits in areas like
China. Lastly they help create habitats for burgeoning species, increasing numbers of those who are endangered or critical, and in general biomass is excellent for cultivating an ecosystem.
From a consumer side the best things you can do would be to speak with your wallet. That means attempting to reduce meat intake due to
rising amounts of methane on meat production farms, trying to buy food (usually ORGANIC and not from Green Revolution inspired farms) that have had good farming methods, like food from vertical or terraced farming in order to promote those styles. People could immigrate more to cities, where there is less need for one to use a vehicle due to public transport and close proximity, thus using a car less (though realistically it doesn't matter). Lastly there surely are the traditional conservation methods they taught you on Earth Day in 5th grade.
Really though I think that humanity is just fucked. It would take a scientific breakthrough akin to the industrial revolution or a social revival that spurns materialism and rampant resource extraction in order to combat anything, and the people advocating for stewardship don't have the stones to do anything concrete about it. This is why oil companies
knew in advance about climate change but chose to continue peddling their already aged product, as ethical capitalism is and has been dead for centuries. The best options available to humans right now are either to thanos snap the populations and attempt to stave off an overpopulated environment before the population yield reaches capacity and resources dry up or to start rolling heads of oil conglomerates, but revolution will never be televised and most people could give a damn about researching where their product comes from, and most people are embroiled in more recent and personal life problems to also care about something that will happen 30 years from now.