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Now comes the more enjoyable part of the mission. Pour another cup of tea, because it\u2019s time to find solutions:<\/p>\n
\n- Write a long and irate list of what the blooming world needs to do in order to blooming well\u00a0fix your big five problems. Switch to green energy! Plant trees! etc. etc. Go on, let it all out!<\/li>\n
- Highlight the few solutions that appeal to\u00a0you the most:\u00a0because they are satisfying, fun, meaningful, will earn you loads of money etc. etc.<\/li>\n
- Highlight the few solutions that you are best-equipped to do something about. Think about your work, your studies, your community, your skills.<\/li>\n
- Look down the list for solutions that are interlinked. Delete any that are not connected. For example, \u200bplanting trees helps\u00a0deforestation, loss of biodiversity, and climate change. Tackling one solution helps the others. These interlinked, amplifying, positive feedback loops\u00a0are the solutions we want to be concentrating on today.<\/li>\n
- Now look at your list and choose just five solutions. Delete the rest. You can do anything, but you\u00a0can\u2019t do everything.\u00a0Some other reader of my website will sort the other ones\u00a0out for you.\u00a0Have another biscuit.<\/li>\n
- Write down your Big Five solutions, and try to incorporate them into your adventures, conversations, philanthropy, voting, and work life. Make sure they all feel fun and rewarding to get involved with.<\/li>\n
- Send me a photo of your list, and then let\u2019s go find some solutions\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Here is my Big Five. Five things I\u00a0really enjoy doing, which just so\u00a0happen to be interlinked solutions to the issues that were grinding me down the most. I\u00a0don\u2019t even need to think about the problems any more \u2013 if I\u00a0get on and do all this fun stuff, and encourage others to do them too, then\u00a0the problems will get ever so slightly smaller\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n