Individuals can do nothing to improve the environment; only governments and large companies can make a difference. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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Individuals

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can do nothing to improve the

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; only governments and large

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can make a difference". My feeling towards

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statement acts as a double-edged sword. On

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side, with my personal thoughts, I strongly disagree with the statement but on the other, it might seem very logical that it is actually how

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neoliberal

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is running. My

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reason to disagree with the following statement is that I strongly believe in the domino effect of the immensely small

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that can lead to a massive big

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. An individual's impact on the

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is negligible as it is only

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thing done by

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person

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from the 6 billion other

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existing on the

planet

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that could be doing many other things and most probably, the majority of these 6 billion other

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are harming the

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one

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way or another. On paper, the action of

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person

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seems totally useless.

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,

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one

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person

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doing something positive is

one

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person

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less doing something negative.

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one

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person

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becomes the beacon of that positivity that the

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needs. If that

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individual's actions

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the idea of two more

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and if

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changing of positive ideology runs for 10 cycles, we will have around 2000

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having a positive impact in the

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which is about a small village walking towards the welfare of

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planet

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.

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, I was enlightened by the power of 1% from a book called "Atomic Habit". The book beautifully illustrated that 1%

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every day for a year is an overall

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of nearly 37% from the initial point. That's the power of an individual per cent that can lead to nearly halfway resolving an issue.

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, it is certain that our

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is deteriorating; from the ruins in the ocean spills to the devastating deforestation of lands. All these scars being inflicted on

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planet

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is only due to a very narrow-minded thought process - to extract as much as resources possible in the short run while having faith that all the consequences will be handled in the future in the long run. Truth to be told, sometimes

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faith doesn't exist. Large

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continue to dent the health of the

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for mere profits that could be gained. There are promises made,

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as donations and plans to suture the damage, but it is all a front-cover to avoid tax and avoid a bad reputation towards the company. The true motivation towards the fixture should have been to save the

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.

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, that very motivation is missing as it will cause a vast amount of money.

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, it is in the hands of the

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to bring an

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to the

environment

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.

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will bring a small

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but

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small

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can lead to a bigger

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over time. In

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neoliberal

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, we all have our choices and

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, the government and big

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have chosen to make the greatest amount of money possible by choosing a path

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doing the least damage to the

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, ignoring that it is still harming the

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. If the government and large

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, changes their priorities to help the

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, there will be a big difference made in the

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of the conditions in the

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.

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, it is not the case and

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, it is in the hands of the

individuals

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to make the small changes, hoping it will be significant enough to bring a bigger

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.