We can’t end the fossil fuel age without bold government policy  and the active cooperation of business. But “regular people” are anything but powerless.

As a consumer, you can make a difference by reducing  your carbon footprint. As a citizen, you can use your voice inside and outside the voting booth. For instance, citizens are pressing cities, universities, and pension funds to publicly declare themselves fossil-free and divest from the industry.

The number of energy cooperatives founded by people who’ve decided to take matters into their own hands is rising fast. And worldwide citizen mobilization around the Paris climate conference in December 2015 helped get the ambitious target of 1.5°C into the agreement. 

https://newrepublic.com/article/139132/towards-working-class-environmentalism