while consumers constantly say “where’s my small car?”

On a Honda or Toyota lot, there are still plenty of small affordable, fuel efficient cars to be bought in the US, people just aren’t buying them and are choosing to pay twice as much for an SUV

meat so cheap it’s the best option for consumers vs plant protein

It’s not, the cheapest diet there is is rice and beans, and you can buy those at literally any store that sells food. Beans are half the price per grams of protein compared to chicken, way less compared to beef and pork. .

People aren’t driving big cars and eating meat because there are no other options or it’s too expensive. There are plenty of other options, and its more expensive to buy an SUV or eat meat, they choose to because they like it and don’t know or care about the climate costs.

corporations producing the vast vast majority

Care to give some citations? Cause a large chunk of greenhouse gas emissions can be chalked up to individual choices. Eating meat (14% of ghg ) and driving (16% of ghg in us) being the top two. I guess you could argue it’s the auto corporations fault for lobbying congress against investing in public transport, but no one is forcing you to eat meat.

I understand corporations are the biggest problem for the planet but you can’t just put it all on them and not look at the ways your lifestyle is also contributing to climate change. Even if we nationalized every major polluting company and somehow got them to net zero we’d still have a problem if everyone is driving a huge pickup truck everywhere and eating beef everyday.

Yeah, I’m staunchly for legalization of all “vices” but I’m not going to pretend that they’re harmless and aren’t valid reasons to want to get rid of them.

There were some in the first gulf war. People forget but iraq had the sixth largest airforce at the time and were able to shoot down a couple American planes before being overwhelmed and fleeing to Iran.