Out of curiosity, I ended up buying this book that says it's the 'key' to solving our current climate crisis. There is a section about how we have an inherit obligation to our creator to build a sustainable life, co-existing with everything else through our own independent choices.
I get the author's point but is that all? Just 'choose' to be sustainable? I feel like it's a bit disconnected to how things actually play out. Of course, our choices matter to some extend but the scale of the system we are operating in feels sooo much bigger than our individual decisions alone. Example, these corporations dump-trucking large plastic waste in to the Pacific while they lobby for the right to keep doing it. This is exactly why we are failing. It turns the issue into some pseudo-spiritual blame, as if the system wouldn't be broken if we just made better individual choices. It feels much bigger than that. You can't just will your way out of something this built-in.
Made me think here, how much of this really comes down to personal responsibility versus the structure we're all moving within. Maybe both? I don't know but the 'just choose better' is a bit disconnected for me.
Thoughts, anyone?