>seems reasonable to do _something_ that everyone agrees with So people will do something that has very little effect on the problem, feel good for their contr

>seems reasonable to do _something_ that everyone agrees with So people will do something that has very little effect on the problem, feel good for their contributions. Then, people will learn than this "something" had no meaningful impact, feel betrayed ("but we agreed on this"), and give up. "Oh, come on, I already did "something". They'll wait for someone else to pickup the burden. That would be big waste of time and energy.