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Not the same as saying you have absolutely no agency in the situation.

• LatteLazy 3y ago
  Most people have no agency on climate change (or pollution or poverty or nuclear war etc). People like to pretend otherwise because they don't want to feel powerless and we have all been conditioned not to admit there is no solution (that we can achieve) to a problem. One of the great advantages of democracy is that people FEEL they have a say. But individuals actually have no input at all. And that's just nationally. This is a truly international problem. We cannot just "hope and try" our way out of this issue any more than we could solve an asteroid impact by each building our own little rocket. I believe we won't see real action as long as people who care limit themselves to personal action and wishing and trying to inspire 8bn others to "do the right thing" simultaneously. Sorry, that sounds personal when I read it back, I'm honestly not sure how else to say it. One of the few rays of hope for me in all this is the Extinction Rebellion group here in the UK. Because they have embraced this. It's time to act on a huge scale or die. Everyone doing their own thing is just dying but with more steps.