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If you care about Animal Cruelty in Factory Farms, you need to get legislation passed. It must become a crime to mistreat animals in those ways, and when malfeasances occurs, the onus of responsibility for those crimes must fall upon wealthy shoulders. That, also, requires legislation. It requires regulations, and regulators.

The largest source of Microplastics is wear and tear on automobile tires. It doesn’t matter what brand of shampoo you buy. It doesn’t matter which company you support with your dollar. The issue of Public Transit is too large-scale to be handled at anything less than the municipal level.

It’s not enough to just not participate in society

If you want the world to Change, you must leverage the mechanisms of political power.

It's not that we should stop trying as an individual and go oh well guess I'll just litter anyway. Instead it should be a "yes and" situation. Yes, you recycle and reuse, and now you've gotta advocate and push for legislation to stop the creation of more plastics.

We can't lose sight of the big picture when we are successful on an individual level. We can't just say well I'm doing my part so that's good enough. No, we need to hold these corporations accountable. We need to make our governments actually work for us and toward the betterment of this world.