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Perhaps we should start actually trying
First step to prove you actually mean it:
No more fucking meat on your plate!
We put like 6 fossil kalories in and get 1 animal tissue kalorie out. This is insane! Our species is about to commit suicide and we love to point fingers at greedy, selfish billionaires. Yet at the same time, every single one of us westerners keeps devouring our biosphere because we're accustomed to a taste.
I know this alone won't save us, but no solution will be enough if we don't agree on this simple thing:
Next time, I will no longer knowingly chose exploitation, misery and annihilation.
Buy cheap legumes or expensive meat alternatives, I don't care. But stop paying for this madness! Then go for CEOs, billionaires and politicians. But start with the most simple, obvious realization first.
If this feels insurmountable, find one vegetarian dish you like and put that into your rotation, and you've already improved.
My best tip is to go for something that's by nature vegetarian like an indian dal or some of the great lebanese stuff like hummus, muhammara, baba-ganoush etc, rather than "I can't believe it's not meat!" products.
Repeat untill you're on a mostly vegetarian diet you like. If you get close to full vegetarian, start easting vitamin-b supplements.