charities aren’t governments and I don’t think expecting them to solve problems is at all realistic
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that doesn’t make helping worthless!
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i mean they were pretty transparent imo. A good amount of charities are. iirc (this might just be the one specific charity i looked at) some keep their tax documents and spending public so you can see exactly how much money they got, from where, and where it went
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really the only way to truly address widescale issues like this is to start regulating the people causing these issues (ie, generally corporations) and like
good luck with that for at least the next 4 years lol
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there are some shitty charities out there but usually you can find out theyre shitty by doing some research beforehand
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Oh yikes
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idk it just feels wrong to hold charities to account for not solving problems when they would never have been able to do that in the first place and that isn’t their goal really
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True
and the whole “regulate corporations” is both guranteed to get less money raised, cost more money, have a pretty high chance of Just Failing, and all things considered will probably not alleviate the problem
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as in…
loopholes/just doing the same shit somewhere else/etc.
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lobbying money also goes very far tbhtbh
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That’s… not my point either actually.
mainly bc youd need worldwide company regulation that prevents every loophole, every fraudster, is easy to comply with, and also a way to actually punish those who do break the rules
We cannot make that, period
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you could maybe do something in the US to help with pollution, likely could actually, but that doesnt change the fact theres still like 7.7 other billion people on earth
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yea fair
God bless getting governments to stop pollution by 2050
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yeah i mean like
per country things can Still Do Shit
like, if china put in a regulation to do pollution things it helps a LOT, same with america
this is not true of smaller countries, but they output less things to the problem too so
like tbc there are things that are possible and im being a bit doomer, banning cfcs was huge and worldwide. but it was also a lot easier to restrict. “dont dump trash in ocean” is a lot harder imo
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Is it true that you can only recycle plastic only 3 times?