That cuts deep. It's very easy to put things off and believe that I'm helpless. Thank you for being blunt about it.

I'll do something today about the climate and planting trees. I'm not physically able to plant stuff myself, so it will have to be something I donate to. I can also push my employer to start sponsoring climate disaster mitigation efforts.

You might want to consider donating to some of the groups that have sprung up. Two that have had recent visibility are:

Extinction Rebellion, organisers of the civil disobedience protests in the UK and elsewhere - https://rebellion.earth

Client Earth, a legal charity aiming to repeatedly take governments to court on climate matters. Became much more visible when Dave Gilmour made a major donation recently: https://www.clientearth.org

Got any good US-based charity recommendations? Both of those seem Euro-centric.

XR has a US site: https://extinctionrebellion.us

They're not quite as established in the US yet as they landed there later, but are active and growing. The whole movement is only around a year or so old. They've achieved remarkable visibility and growth the time since the first UK demos.

Client Earth has a US arm: https://www.clientearth.org/usa/ though it doesn't look terribly active. I suspect there are better US equivalents that have achieved more stateside. I don't know who though, sorry.

Update: Coincidentally I just saw a news item about a US equivalent of Climate Earth: https://earthjustice.org who seem to have considerable history and track record. They just launched a law suit over the Endangered Species Act.

Maybe this https://citizensclimatelobby.org/