I wonder all the time if we’re truly making progress towards a better world or just chipping away at a metastasizing mess of problems that’ll never improve. Seeing public energy on a given issue wax and wane can make it feel like we’re losing all the progress we gain during those fleeting peaks of visibility and action. It’s also incredibly difficult to know how we fit into these bigger movements, and the scale of collective action often swallows the incremental impacts of our contributions, making us feel powerless and inconsequential. I think there are 2 main questions we should address: is this large-scale up and declining trajectory really doing anything, and are the ups outweighing the downs?
