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Go vegan. You will no longer be apart of horrific animal abuse, the leading cause of biodiversity loss and deforestation, and if done correctly, will likely improve your health. You won't be able to get so much good from doing one thing.
*But also make sure you water, stake and prune it for the first 3-5 years.
Take Kant for example and go improve yourself, as the only part of the world you can really change.
Not only does this make the place cleaner, people watching this may get the warm fuzzies that someone else actually cares.
Another thing is to ask employees at stores how their day is. You don’t need to have a full conversation, sometimes people just have nobody ask them this question and it helps.
Go vegan. You will no longer be apart of horrific animal abuse, the leading cause of biodiversity loss and deforestation, and if done correctly, will likely improve your health. You won't be able to get so much good from doing one thing.
Maybe a nice halfway point would to be vegetarian...
Trying to make the world better for others has been a losing battle and one not worth fighting either. People are automatons. They have their own desires and irrational behaviors.
So I just focus on my own happiness.
Global warming? I’ll optimize to live on coastal California. It should be 60-75F beautiful sunny days until the day I die.
Insane politics? I’ll live 2800 miles away around hippies and liberals. I don’t need to watch the news.
Things getting expensive? Make more money so it doesn’t affect me.
People are suffering everywhere? Dawg I’m suffering too, so I’ll believe in something irrational so it doesn’t affect me.
Maybe not what you wanted to hear. But I’m a realist and wasted a few years of my life trying to think of those things. Ultimately, it’s not worth it. I’ll support things that make sense and I don’t eat meat or drive a gas guzzler. What more do you want?
When you ask your titular question you’re already in a minority of the population.
Many people continue to make dumbass decisions that affect everyone else in negative ways. I would love to slap them back to their senses, but that’s not allowed.