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Originally Posted by newB
Doing a little is still better than doing nothing.
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Suppose we were talking about helping the homeless instead of the planet. I say to you to give just a penny a day to the homeless. Save it up in a jar, and then once a year, take the jar to a homeless charity and give them the 365 pennies... Well there's not much they can really do with 365 pennies, but you are doing 'a little' yeah? Better than doing nothing...
Yet, after the first week, you realize that I have decided to give £1000.00 per day, to try and make more people homeless. The exact opposite of what you are trying to do.
So at the end of the year, I'll be giving three hundred and sixty five thousand pounds to an organization that MAKES people homeless.
Your pennies feel pretty pointless now dont they? And thats how Im feeling. It doesn't matter if I do a little or a lot. The numbers working against me making even the slightest difference are not just large - They are unrealistically astronomical...