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    • Seagoon_
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      What bothers me most is how we are encouraged to feel hopeless, like there is nothing we can do

      We can do so much to improve our lives, our community and the environment. Some we can do on our own, some takes organising.

      An example is Clean Up Australia Day. Community food cupboards, little libraries.

      We can be good neighbours even in small ways.

      We can stop listening to bad news.

      The economy? That will take longer. Join unions. Invest in Australian industry instead of residential property. Tax private companies. etc etc

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          1 year ago

          of course privately owned companies ( lets call them what they are ) and governments need to do things that improve lives and the world

          Advocating action on an individual level is subversive and a way to achieve these bigger aims

          once people start cleaning their local environment, having a nicer kinder community, having stronger local industry, having more tax money to invest in Australia they will like the results, they will want more as they see that positive change is possible, become invested in improvement, in positive action, and they will start demanding more action from government and industry

          it’s subversive , it changes minds and that’s why I always say it

    • anobium_punctatum
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      1 year ago

      Hence why I don’t really watch the news anymore. I just end up feeling sad and angry.

    • StudSpud The Starchy
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      Sometimes I want the apocalypse to hurry up; it’s the slow burn that’s making the end of the world so boring to live through. Can’t we have an end-of-the-world scenario that’s more like ‘2012’? Ugh!

    • Duenan
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      Ive stopped watching the news for the last few months. It’s been ever so depressing and the constant delivering of bad news left a bad taste of my mouth.

      Cost of this and cost of that and rate rises non stop for the last whatever months.