Individual actions matter far less than I once thought

In a recent conversation with a group of strangers, I found myself speaking aloud about something that’s been nagging away in the back of my brain for a while. Something that I didn’t really want to admit.

What I do as an individual matters far less than I once thought.

The change the world urgently needs isn’t about individual perfection; in fact, that’s near enough useless. We need togetherness, collaboration, innovation and BIG action, driven by leaders, groups, movements, governments, industries and international partnerships.

I’m not ignoring the fact that individuals make a group, but there needs to be collaboration that includes practical plans and goals. Not just one person deleting their X(Twitter) account.

This is the case with many of the biggest issues the world faces today, including all the ones that are consuming my mind recently. The lack of basic human rights for women in Afghanistan. The fact that the world has billionaires and now even a trillionaire, while others live in extreme poverty. The ongoing and largely ignored genocide happening in Palestine. The leadership of a country with significant global sway is in the hands of a man who has proven time and time again that he has one singular interest in his life, and it begins with D and ends in P.