me_irl

i agree, but the thing is that we could be already doing more 'here' and 'there' to fix this corruption, but in the end we don't get anything done 'here' or 'there' anyway because we are not organized enough in local.

if i can't fix my own stuff, how can i pretend to fix others'? i get the 'there is no time to think small', but i don't think we currently are 'locally big' enough to think 'big globally' either.

also, the ecologic problems in countries like India, Bangladesh or China (for example), mostly depend directly on how economy is being handled by these countries, but also in rich countries that externalize their industry and garbage there, which makes this not an isolated corruption problem, but a whole failed economic model, in global as you say.

we people from Western countries import industry and export garbage, when we could have a responsible national, inner, circular, market first, so we don't affect other economies so much and so bad.

i feel we people from Western countries are in a much powerful position than people from those countries because we are the Demanding part of the market. we shape it. they Offer what we Demand. sadly, when it comes to the market, a bunch of Westerners can have more impact on India's Government than one of their citizens.

the problem: we are powerful but we cannot make it count because we are disorganized on what to do and how, we have been numbed and individualized.

we can cry in forums or go greta'ing to random politicians, but when it comes to action it feels like we are "oh no! ... anyway" and go to daily stuff again. i think the easiest way to not get overwhelmed by this is starting local, making active choices in our economies and prosecuting corruption.