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Red meat has a huge carbon footprint because cattle requires a large amount of land and water.
https://sph.tulane.edu/climate-and-food-environmental-impact-beef-consumption
Demand for steaks and burgers is the primary driver of Deforestation:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/marcel-gomes-interview
If you don't have a car and rarely eat red meat, you are doing GREAT 🙌 🙌
Sure, you can drink tap water instead of plastic water. You can switch to Tea. You can travel by train. You can use Linux instead of Windows AI's crap. Those are great ideas. But don't drive yourself crazy. If you are only an ordinary citizen, remember that perfect is the enemy of good.
I agree that large scale changes require tax reform, advertising bans and massive investments in trains and public transit. But you can't do that without political power.
Large scale changes starts with people being aware. Otherwise, it's doomed to fail. Look at what just happened in Canada. Justin Trudeau banned oil tankers off the coast of British Columbia and tried to ban single use plastics. He faced outraged reactions. Some angry politicians were publically taunting him on social media and sued his government.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/we-will-continue-to-push-back-alberta-to-continue-single-use-plastics-ban-fight-with-federal-government/
A guy literally campaigned on defending plastics and slashing the (tiny) tax on carbon.
Why? Because many members of the public weren't aware.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-scrap-plastics-ban-1.7514037
In fact, if it wasn't for Quebec, where climate change denial is practically non-existent, English Canada would have elected Pierre Poilievre.
So yes, I agree that real change takes political power. But political power without people understanding the logic of your actions can't solve problems.