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I find it hard to care. I don't mean I don't care, but that doing so causes me huge difficulties. I find I can't *partly* care, I either ignore it and try to go about my life, or if I don't ignore it there are almost debilitating levels of depression and anxiety that go with that.

There is pretty well *nothing* I, personally, can do about the global disasters in progress. Pretty much no one can. The oil companies could (hah, some hope!), and probably some other huge corporations, and politicians could, but almost no one else has the resources or power to make a detectable difference - reading the article makes it pretty clear.

Even if I had the money, all I could do is make decisions about what I do. If I owned a house I could decide to put solar panels on the roof or replace the gas boiler with a heat pump system, but read the article - that's going to make almost no difference. (It's *necessary*, but not sufficient - in global terms it would make no difference.) To make a difference we need a government to pass laws mandating change - gas supplies to be banned in 10 years, for example, and organising a massive programme of boiler replacement. Similarly for transport, what we actually need is huge investment in sustainable public transport to reduce car-dependence, rearrangement of land use to make typical journeys shorter (15 minute cities), and replacement of the remaining fossil-powered vehicles with EVs.

I can't do those things. Governments need to do them. All I get to do is cast a vote every few years to choose between several alternatives, most of whom won't do those things and the remaining ones who don't have a hope of getting elected. We also need the voting systems to be changed to make it possible to elect better leaders, but the existing leaders are the ones who control that.

Other than voting, I suppose I could protest. Extinction Rebellion made a good job of that, getting a lot of attention for climate issues. The government's response was to criminalise protest. Great.

So basically there's nothing useful I can do. With that in mind, I'd rather have a few hopeful articles once in a while so that I can occasionally stop being near-suicidally depressed about the situation and feel for a while that maybe, just maybe, those in charge will be able to put self-interest aside long enough to save the humans.
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