Not using plastic straws or eating meat or whatever may well lead to a happier life for you; I won’t say it’s a bad thing to do that.
It will do fuck-all about the coming apocalypse, because not much of the damage is being done by the end user consumer.
If you live in the US, you have a golden combination of opportunity. The US does a lot of polluting and has a lot of ability to influence other places in the world that do, and with enough effort it’s actually possible for an activist organization to get them to listen and do things differently. It’s not easy, but the return on investment for trying to get the US government to regulate Chevron (to pick a random example) beats by like 10:1 or 100:1 the return from directly lobbying the Chevron corporation or just driving a more fuel-efficient car yourself.
Not using plastic straws or eating meat or whatever may well lead to a happier life for you; I won’t say it’s a bad thing to do that.
It will do fuck-all about the coming apocalypse, because not much of the damage is being done by the end user consumer.
If you live in the US, you have a golden combination of opportunity. The US does a lot of polluting and has a lot of ability to influence other places in the world that do, and with enough effort it’s actually possible for an activist organization to get them to listen and do things differently. It’s not easy, but the return on investment for trying to get the US government to regulate Chevron (to pick a random example) beats by like 10:1 or 100:1 the return from directly lobbying the Chevron corporation or just driving a more fuel-efficient car yourself.