Sometimes our individual efforts to combat climate change feel so futile

[True Dough]

Perfectly illustrated by this meme. Not saying we shouldn't make the effort, just that sometimes you want to throw your arms in the air and yell "WTF?!?"

[Klaralven]

1. As one part in 330 million US population, they are futile

Locally, about half of town's waste is diverted from the landfill by the recycling program. I've never seen an analysis that it reduces greenhouse gas, but it does extend the life of the landfill.

[multigraincracker]

2. Slow human reproduction for the

long range solution.

[mockmonkey]

3. What you are saying reminds me of this...

(Adult Language in the video)

From January of 2020


Tom Walker as Jonathan Pie doing a fake documentary where he grouses about doing this story about climate change.

The part of it that I think is so true happens at 10:00 minutes in. It's basically what you are saying.

and yet at the end he cleans up the beach.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. Without corporate action, they are futile.