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> In my country, not even a few years ago, people who didn't eat meat or didn't take the plane because of ecological reasons were really rare and seen as extremists. Today, it's more and more widespread and socially accepted

The problem is that these religious rituals are not doing much to mitigate any of the issues.

I tend to ask "how does that solar shade coming along" only to get downvotes from believers.

Sometimes they say that the issue is more complex, such as via ocean acidification. But the problem here is that if you're doing something, that issue becomes less complex, whereas if you're doing nothing (short of those religious rituals) your issue becomes even more complex.



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