I also think it’s preposterous to put climate change at their feet
The more steps you take towards any goal, the greater the fractional impact of each subsequent step.
Reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions needs changes on par with:
• "every nation must reduce all emissions to zero, except Ghana who can continue as-is": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhous...
• or "every source of emissions must be reduced to zero, except for the degradation of grassland which can continue as-is": https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector
> are going to have the net effect of at best kicking the can down the road a few more years.
All individual climate initiatives "kick the can down the road N more years" when viewed in isolation. What you need to look at is where the can started, and how to get people to keep kicking until it makes it all the way off the map.
Phasing out CFCs kicked the can N years, phasing out HCFCs and HFCs kick it N more, tightening up emission regulations and not having individuals commute in 12 liter hemis with cat delete and coal rolling mods kick it N more, tightening up international shipping emissions another N years, etc.