Vote? Been doing that. Doesn’t seem to be helping.

Vote, of course. But also donate and campaign. The only way out of this mess is political. Volunteer. Protest. Rally others.

There are political parties, big, mainstream ones that frequently win elections, who want to bring us to carbon neutrality and even beyond, to undo the damage of past generations. Give them more power. They're stemming the tide but with enough power they could reverse it.

They are spinning around throwing punches in all directions and mostly just hitting the air. We are nowhere near actually getting a punch across the jaw of any of the people that it actually matters for.

I get it. It's maddening to have no obvious villain but be surrounded by "bad" people. We do need people to flail and cling to life but they are more just trying to appease their own mind than anything.

You actually have a positive impact. But you're also having a negative impact by spreading the mentality of "nothing will change", both to yourself and to other people you're voicing it to. It makes yourself and everyone you voice it to less likely to take action like you did.

Don't get me wrong, I also realistically believe we will run into massive problems. But the only sensible thing to do is just keep trying everything possible personally, it's the right thing to do.