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Why individual environmental action feels meaningless

I keep my house at sixty-five degrees in winter while my neighbor heats his driveway and I feel both righteous and stupid because nothing I do matters if he does that.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Personal sacrifice becomes psychologically unsustainable when others' excess renders individual discipline irrelevant.

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