The articles that make you uncomfortable first inform you. Then you think. Then you make personal choices to reduce pollution, pick sustainable ways of living and transportation etc. You talk to your relatives and friends about it to spread awareness. If you live in a democracy, effect policy change through your representatives. Etc etc.
Advocating for the shutting down of oil and gas is the most effective way to combat it
Taking the subway or not flying often or not eating mear won't change much if anything at all, its just virtue signaling.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-empty-gestur...
For an example where individual choices eventually cascaded into big changes to human environment see anthropocene.
So much misinformation on this topic. It's more comfortable to be complacent.
Which requires advocating for nuclear power, of course.
It's rather strange that the most ardent Climate Crusaders are against nuclear power, too.
I would just add every environment is not equally suited to each type of power generation. Each environment needs a different peak load. Batteries can get you through a single peak when sized well, at large expense. We don't want natural gas to be the fallback for renewables universally.
Of course it would be a good thing for us all if someone would replace all those gas plants with nuclear, but it's hard to see why anyone who had the money to do that would choose to spend it that way.
(Plus we currently don't have the wind/solar providers pay for the gas plants -- and the costs of ensuring a constant supply of gas. That cost is currently measured in leopard tanks and stinger missiles... and in Ukrainian soldiers but that's an externality we are not paying for.)
How do we change that? Advocate for nuclear power. Tell every nasty little "green" politician that we hate them and their lies.