Sometimes a little bit of delusion is a useful thing, no?

JUN 03 2026 · 12:00

Sometimes a little bit of delusion is a useful thing, no? If I had fully understood the scale of plastic pollution six years ago - as a 19 year old surfer who just wanted to make a bit of a change - and approached it purely rationally, I probably would have concluded that my efforts wouldn’t make much of a difference. That the problem is simply too big. That every minute 1 garbage truck of plastic enters the ocean. And that all the plastic litter is just a tiny symptom of a much larger systemic crisis anyway. And yet, sometimes you gotta ignore the big overwhelming stuff and just focus on the little patch of land (or sand) in front