Individual action and climate change

There’s long been a debate among environmentalists about whether people should even be talking about personal actions to tackle climate change — switching to hybrid cars, flying less — when it’s going to take big systemic change to really make a difference. Does talking about individual actions let big companies and governments off the hook? In a moment when individual actions are the best defense against another global problem — the coronavirus pandemic — the answer to that question is getting more interesting. The World’s Anna Kusmer reports in this week’s installment of “The Big Fix,” The World’s climate change solutions segment.