I honestly think that microplastics and CO² are a strange thing to give up over.

Both are a mostly genuine mistake made by a civilization that was (at least at the time it commited to the mistake) largely unaware of the problems it was causing. Much like acid rain or the ozone layer.

We are slowly getting to grips with the problem. And don’t get me wrong: it sucks how a few extremely wealthy individuals can slow the progress that most other people are trying to achieve to an absolute crawl. This absolutely fucking sucks.

But doom scrolling every day and giving up isn’t going to change anything. Neither now nor in the future. It’s okay to be sad. And a lot of things are really sad at the moment. But where sadness paralyzes, anger moves. Be angry. You have every right to be.

Edit: Damn. I just noticed the community I’m posting this in. ._.