as someone who spends time researching, talking, and writing about sustainable and low-waste living, i’ve been putting a lot of thought into how individual action interplays with larger systems change. i’ll hear things like, ‘not using plastic straws will never have any real impact on the climate crisis.’ which, to be fair, is in many ways true. but having a defeatist mindset only discourages us from seizing the power we do have to enact material change. to chalk up all responsibility to mega-corporations and politics is to ignore the fact that those systems will never shift without the hard work and activism of individuals.
plant matter 7.17.21
plant matter 7.17.21
plant matter 7.17.21
as someone who spends time researching, talking, and writing about sustainable and low-waste living, i’ve been putting a lot of thought into how individual action interplays with larger systems change. i’ll hear things like, ‘not using plastic straws will never have any real impact on the climate crisis.’ which, to be fair, is in many ways true. but having a defeatist mindset only discourages us from seizing the power we do have to enact material change. to chalk up all responsibility to mega-corporations and politics is to ignore the fact that those systems will never shift without the hard work and activism of individuals.