I love that analogy. No, you're not going to personally save the world by reducing your carbon footprint. But you know what you are going to be? One leaf on a tree in a forest, making that little bit more oxygen that helps collectively make the world a better place.
And that's worth doing. Especially if you can encourage other people to be leaves too.
Fair point, I'm not part of any organized community with the aim of helping those in need, which likely plays a role in not actually seeing others doing something.
And on any local community meeting most of the people are just complaining and yelling at each other so we never reach to any agreements and later i just go fix and clean any shared spaces myself and oddly have become the first person to be called when any elderly person needs some help.
Same at work, oddly I've become the first person when someone needs some aid even though it's not part of my job, while the people whos job description actually forces them to help others aren't doing it.
Though I'm not that sure how well that fits into here. I apologize if i completely missed the mark.