> The downside of this approach is that if we all did it then the world would be a much worse place. I can't fix the World or the dark aspects of the human so

> The downside of this approach is that if we all did it then the world would be a much worse place. I can't fix the World or the dark aspects of the human soul, but hopefully made my local area a better place since I dropped-out of the news-cycle a few years ago. I use my former news 'time-budget' to become invoved in Council business, to follow the activities of my local politicians and to just go and do stuff that benefits people around the town. I feel better informed as a result and I'm no longer surprised and enraged by 'unexpected' changes in my local environment. I helped to fix a pothole in a local road last week. Utterly irrelevant on a global scale, but then so is a plane crash in Colombia.