> For most individuals there is no lifestyle change they can make that will matter. Fixing it requires collective action.

Sorry but this is absolute nonsense.

What we eat matters. A huge amount of what people eat is unnecessarily excessive in terms of resources required to create it. Beef and dairy, most meat, are good examples of this.

An individual can reduce their contribution to climate change by up to 30% by simply forgoing meat and dairy. That percentage obviously varies quite a lot, but it can be huge.

Add in that food waste is a huge problem and this makes more sense.

> An individual can reduce their contribution to climate change by up to 30% by simply forgoing meat and dairy

So they go from their contribution to climate change being completely insignificant to it being 70% of completely insignificant.

If I dropped all meat and dairy it would reduce the world's annual emissions by 0.0000000026% (if we are optimists [1]).

This level of reduction only matters is a very large number of other people do it too, and getting that to happen requires a lot of top down effort.

[1] Realistically cows are produced in integer amounts. My foregoing burgers and steaks would not reduce the number of cows. At most have a minuscule affect on prices too low to be detected. Same for other meats and dairy.