WE NEED SYSTEMIC CHANGE, INDIVIDUAL ACTION IS NOT ENOUGH

All our life, we have been taught about small acts to save the planet. We had always been told to plant more trees. Pick up our trash. Decline straws to save the turtles. Reduce, reuse, recycle. But at this level of crisis, simple acts won’t cut it anymore. As much as we would like to believe small drops can create an ocean of change, sometimes we forget there are people who can make tsunamis. There’s no point in “Strawless Sundays” and “Bag-free Fridays” when companies continue mass-manufacturing straws and plastics the next day. Corporations that push the green agenda are the same ones running over our forests to expand their businesses and all the while, we become their clueless consumers. While these bigshots continue fueling the Earth’s downfall, there’s only so much we can do on our own