Or like telling folks in California to stop watering their lawns and take shorter showers when there's a water shortage. BUT keeping the focus on personal responsibility rather than industry is the name of the game.

Yeah, 90% of it is industry and growing stuff in a desert, but those people watering their roses is the problem. Lol it's more of the elite making sure they get their profits while blaming the general public and also pushing the cost to them.

This us a faulty analogy. In the case of the atmosphere we all share it and it blows around all over the world. In the case of domestic water distribution systems, the water system that supplies your garden hose and the one that supplies orchards and fields are completely distinct, unconnected, and not interchangeable. If your local California water utility is running low on water there is nothing that an almond grower in Fresno County can do for you.

Isn't the assumption that you're working in serial? Given that this work can be done in parallel and many areas will take a long time, why not work on as many as possible?

We are working in serial. There is limited public attention, government budget and political capital available to regulate these industries. This creates significant opportunity cost.

In order to actually change the world, we need to spend all our efforts stopping the biggest polluters such as chinese industry and fossil fuels. Worrying about smaller problems such as methane or cryptocurrency is a waste of time at best and a malicious distraction at worst.

The public's attention and cognitive powers are finite, so it is best to not confuse the issues. The front and center message about climate change to the public and to regulatory agencies needs to be "cars".

> The public's attention and cognitive powers are finite

The amount of money they, and the state, can spend, pursuing these things, is also finite.