It's disheartening if you do care about long-term issues, but perhaps these are all long-term issues. In a way, I think people tend to fight for causes they ar

It's disheartening if you do care about long-term issues, but perhaps these are all long-term issues. In a way, I think people tend to fight for causes they are exposed to and think their voices are on the right side of History. I'm appalled that Belgians are out protesting for Gaza (which is also important) but don't care one iota for what 3M did to half the ground water of the country — and how Belgian politicians and the EPP looked the other way. We're being slowly poisoned over here, but it's the war over there, you have nothing to do with, that matters the most. Right. We are facing the dismantling of social protections, climate change, corrupt governments, and so on, perhaps people pick the one issue that feels remote enough yet meaningful to fight for. But someone has to care about Gaza as well, I suppose. It would be far more useful to their lives if people fought for local causes.