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Yeah, stop telling my poor ass about it. There's literally nothing I can do about it. I conserve and do everything possible and a billionaire will undo my lifetime of work in a day. Stop telling the little people at the bottom with no power that it's their job to fix this, all it does is raise collective anxiety. Go bother the billionaires and corporations, go make their lives hell until they help. But what am I supposed to do??
There are two sets of things you can do:
Lol you're very hopeful. I'm old so I know those things in #1 are not real or effective. You can't influence politics or policy without having the money to lobby (bribe).
And again I do everything possible for my part. But then I look over and see a rich guy undoing it all in a day and facing no consequences and it gives me a sense of "what's the fucking point?"
That's utter nonsense; I've seen people have a pretty dramatic impact on a shoestring. Especially at the local level, where simply showing up to comment at municipal government meetings makes a real difference.
The end goal is to eventually constrain the impact the wealthiest have.
Again I could be at such a task all my life, fighting against government to help the environment for four lifetimes, and a billionaire will undo all my life's work with the snap of a finger and a location wedding for their rich friends.