> The only way to do anything is to sacrifice something.
I think this narrative is not correct, or at least makes it seem like climate change will only get solved if we stop being consumerists. There is no need to be that negative, and I find that it hurts the chances we we will actually solve climate change. I get the disillusionment, I do (especially working on it every day).
Food production and distribution for 8 billion people (alone) is about 30% of climate change. So, even if we stopped everything else, climate change would still happen (albeit a bit slower). Even if we all switched to a low carbon intensity diet and literally did nothing else, it would still happen.
There are plenty of ways to mitigate climate change. For better or worse, we live in a capitalist society, and those ways are not generally profitable. However, that means (correctly) pricing carbon into our goods and services will accomplish what you want.
Anyway, I have found most folks who want to do something have never even written their representatives (which takes minutes, minutes!). Tell them you want a revenue neutral carbon tax, or pick something you think works better.