Earth

Proxy Power

“What can I do? How can just one person do anything about the fate of the world.”

That’s the common complaint of people today, who worry about the future, but who are already overwhelmed by the daily grind of a busy life — work, family, and a myriad of modern distractions. Polls show a clear majority of North Americans, and people in many other lands, care deeply about the state the Earth is in, and want to see something preserved. But who has the energy or time to go out and become an activist?

Trust contemporary society, though. For the convenience of busy moderns, there is now the social action equivalent of the microwave oven and the frozen dinner. In other words, you can hire people to go out and save the world for you! Pick a problem and there’s probably some organization already in tune with your agenda that will add your small contribution to others’ and leverage it into serious effort. I list just a few below, but there are so many. How can anyone complain that they can’t influence the future of the world when it’s so easy to get involved?

Some cliches are true: either you’re part of the solution or you’re part of the problem.