Thank you for this thoughtful, interesting comment. I certainly don't disagree that we should, as individuals, do what we can, although your final model (everyone doing what they can aggregating into a collective something that really does make a difference) sounds much more like the "solution" to climate change proposed in the Stan Robinson book, a review of which is linked-to in the post here. And in one way I think I disagree with you. Put it this way: I don't think the strength of the eucatastrophe story model is that it has better practical utility; I think its strength is that it is more beautiful (more beautiful than, eg, the one-thing-after-another, slow-aggregate, uncatastrophic story-shape. Similarly Tolkien's Northern theory of Courage is not that showing courage in the face of overwhelming odds might mean you win; it's that losing courageously is a more beautiful thing that losing meanly.