An individual person has basically zero individual effect on climate change, even if they are a prince and spend millions of dollars lavishly on air travel and

An individual person has basically zero individual effect on climate change, even if they are a prince and spend millions of dollars lavishly on air travel and so on. These criticisms of people taking airplanes fall kind of flat in my opinion. Unless collective action is taken there is no point in ruining your own enjoyment of your individual life. That seat on the plane you give up will most likely just be put on discount and sold to someone else. And if you do something like Greta and take a sailboat across the Atlantic, it doesn’t seem to inspire people to do anything more than make fun of you. Economists generally suggest using taxes to price the externalities (e.g., cap and trade or a carbon tax). This leads everyone to take collective action as they now have a financial incentive to do so. Unfortunately the politicization of climate change and the incorrect connection between “climate change” and environmentalism has led to a lot of problems with this as well, e.g., environmentalists opposing nuclear power plants, or even solar/wind farms being blocked or slowed under environmental regulations!