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Sorting your trash is the human equivalent of planting a tree, and it's especially valuable if you have/teach children. It's a small activity that helps to build better habits and mindsets.
It won't change the world today, but it will build a foundation for changing the world tomorrow.
This reminds me of something I was commenting about yesterday.
Focus on your immediate environment first, and make your little corner of the world better before you worry about saving the universe.
And like you said, it is a habit and mindset thing. If you plant a tree in your yard or in your community, no it will not save the rain forest, but your mental health and physical health and living conditions will all be slightly better off than they were before it.
If you start intentionally working in these positive actions that provide tiny incremental improvements, before you know it you may be feeling more than incrementally better.
some of those positive actions and changes can be really fun, too. sometimes it's hard to tell whether you're going to enjoy something before you dive into it, especially when the brain is in misery mode.
YES!
It is not always easy to judge how much an activity will benefit you going by how much you want to do it beforehand. It is not always as simple as exercising and eating your vegetables either. Shit's complex.
I describe it like each of our brains has a long, detailed, and customized user manual -- but we don't get a copy. We can choose to attempt to reverse engineer that manual if we have the right motivation.
the example i am currently working on is my e-trike. i bought it simply thinking i would finally be able to get around town without relying on people for rides, and the change in my overall health and general outlook has been dramatic (well, dramatic for me. i'm a drama queen).
It's a small change that everyone can make for themselves, and for their piece of mind. This shouldn't feel like a chore - and even more so a particular blame we take on from the big corpos.
Doing what's technically right is what will change the world - even if our enemy is a corpo cartel.
If what is right is butchering the capitalist class¹. Yes.
¹pretty sure that's a big part of it.
Every tree you plant will be torn out.
Right so we should just never plant trees and never even try to give back to the planet that provides everything we need to live because one day that tree might be ripped out or cut down, or die naturally.
Until you kill the fuckers tearing them out, you're just lying, making yourself comfortable with doing nothing.
We absolutely need to be planting and nourishing those trees.
And they must, unfortunately, be watered with blood.
the corpses of the bourgeoisie would make excellent fertilizer
I’ve planted several trees in my life and none of them have been torn out. A few have burned in a forest fire, though.