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This is the source of your problem. Individual action will cost you a lot while accomplishing virtually nothing. Donating some small part of your income to green nonprofits has a greater impact, at a much lower cost to your quality of life.
A climate disaster is going to make us all make sacrifices we don't want to make eventually, no matter what you sacrifice now. If these are the final days of a healthy planet, don't deprive yourself while the billionaires are taking joyrides in their gigayachts. Just accept that this horror wasn't your fault, because if everyone lived with your likely very small footprint, this probably wouldn't be happening.
A story that’s always stuck with me is: “at a party someone told the group that there wasn’t enough pizza for everyone to have 2 slices, and some people took one slice, and some took three - and that really describes humanity.”