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But The System Is Like This, What Can I Do?

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In the field of mental health, it is said that if the person sees that there is a problem and wants to solve this problem, that person can be helped and a solution can be found. I don't know to what extent it would be appropriate to compare the climate crisis to mental health, but we have a similar problem with acceptance. Since the problem is not yet in front of us in all its glory, most of us live as if we don't have a problem. When we do not accept the magnitude of the problem, it becomes impossible to find a solution. We have two main problems in the context of climate and environmental problems. First, we do not know how big the problems are, and secondly, even if we know the size of the problems, our intellectual structure does not want to accept it and take action. Let's look at the first one first, because ignorance is a relatively easy problem. There are two main reasons for ignorance. First of all, scientists don't want to scare us too much. There is a simple