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Maybe they are futile because too many think this way
Yeah sorry, was feeling a bit depressed when I posted this.
I do think there are things we can do as individuals. I think spreading awareness, voting, demonstrating, protesting and striking are all things we can do that can potentially have an effect on the future of the planet.
I also think that as an individual, it doesn't matter how much I recycle, how much meat I eat, how few plastic straws I use, whether I own a car, or even how much I use commercial air travel makes a difference, because the worst offenders against the ecosystem are committing 100000x my lifetime's worth of damage every day, and the natural energy systems at play are incomprehensibly large. It really is like trying to stop a train.
On my own, my two arms won't do much to stop the train.
If a hundred people helped me, we still wouldn't stop the train.
If a thousand people helped me, we might derail the train, but that wouldn't stop its momentum and it will still cause a lot of damage.
If we appeal to the driver of the train in time, we might be able to convince them to stop. Their momentum means the train still can't be stopped in time, but they can at least start the process of slowing it down, and maybe reduce the total amount of damage done in the future. This is our only chance and our only real option.
There are some things that even if all of us did it would amount to busywork at best. "carbon footprint" for example is complete misdirection of responsibility from large companies to individuals. So consider recycling and such to rather be measure of your conviction and try to find ways to get people to care and convince others to do the same.