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adjl posted...

To be fair, I kind of get it.

I'm not going to try and edit several quote blocks, I'm terrible at it lol But I get it too. It's demotivating to think or believe you're "the only one" doing something or putting forth the effort. But that's where the feelings have to stop and the reality has to sink in. Obviously you (in the general sense of "you") aren't the ONLY person working towards bettering a situation. Part of the onus is to find those other people, network, collaborate, and make many small personal changes and encourage and push for those large, all-encompassing ones as well. Compromise is important too, so, okay, keep your jet, but now it comes with an incredibly steep fine that goes directly to environmental conservation efforts. It's a multi-faceted kind of topic and what I see a lot of is people sitting on their thumbs and doing much of nothing. The reality is, if you care about the environment, then you need to get over the fact that you may not actually see all the benefits and the positive results in your lifetime. People used to work hard for future generations they'd never meet. Now it seems nobody cares about anything past next week. I also understand I am getting a bit off-topic, but I do believe this cultural malaise has much to do with the lack of impactful efforts as a collective.

Edit: Oh, I forgot to address how you said that people need to be assured others are putting in efforts as well and I really appreciated that. Which is also part of that malaise. We all gotta learn to live with and trust each other a bit more that we can figure these things out as a group, and not just individuals who happen to be similarly stuck on Earth.