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So when are yanks going to do something about him?
They won't. Americans are idiots.
They generally only protest when social media tells them to. And social media only tells them to protest when the President is someone the owners of social media don't like. They all like to cosplay as rebels, but really they're the most complacent people in the world.
People in general are allowing they're quality of life to be smudged, regardless of if they're American. There's a plastic island bigger than Texas in the Pacific, right? We're literally killing our environment because plastic is easier to ship groceries in than glass (etc)
You are doing these things. I do what I can to reduce carbon emissions and reduce waste. You could too, but you're told that it's fine for you to do nothing other than sit around complaining about other people on social media.
Doomerism is all about making you apathetic, why do you go along with it?
Who says I'm not doing things to address it, even if it won't amount to anything?
I'm responding to a thread that makes this seem like it's a deeply American problem. It's obvious that this isn't the only country that won't successfully push back against a decline. Our species needs to be able to organize better.