I’ve been using this mentality. It’s also easier to bring people to your side when you’re welcoming those trying their best and not demand perfection. Sometimes you can and should be strict with your choices (often it does take effort/discomfort), but if you can’t, any harm reduction still helps.
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Nilah Magruder
When it comes to boycotting, just a thought. It’s okay if you can’t quit a company cold turkey. In Master Gardeners, when we encourage people to switch to native plants, the goal is 70% native, not 100%. If you were shopping at a store 80% of the time and cut it back to 60%, that 20% still hurts.
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Such an underappreciative quote, at that. I've been adjusting my spending habits. This means reducing how much I can spend in any given time or reducing any amount of time on any given website.
1.4° temperature increase is less harmful than 1.5°
2 more yearly floods is less harmful than 3
lots of things are beyond our control, but this helps to combat the "we can't do anything to help" mindset
1. we think it's not happening
2. oops it's happening, it's too late to do anything
3. guess i'll just die.jpg