Most people don’t want to hear the hard truth, which is that political activism - that is, incentizing large institutions to change behavior - is the single mo

Most people don’t want to hear the hard truth, which is that political activism - that is, incentizing large institutions to change behavior - is the single most effective individual action we can take for both things like birding and things like climate change (which are of course linked). It’s not fun to hear this. It’s a lot more fun and rewarding to build a bird house or start a local bird park. These aren’t net zero effect things but if we’re ultimately concerned about efficiency and impact, they are nominal. We are clearly at the stage of human civilization where we have to start looking beyond immediate gratification. Is that possible? I don’t know.