I think of this as the inordinate power of advocacy. It can seem useless to advocate some position that is far out there, but say you convince a million people

I think of this as the inordinate power of advocacy. It can seem useless to advocate some position that is far out there, but say you convince a million people to use a little less plastic. That's gonna reduce plastic use more than anything you can personally accomplish. Of course in this scenario you don't have to convince some people, you have to convince everyone, and then especially the people you think are the worst actors, so it's sort of unlikely to be effective.