I like to use the 100% responsibility model approach for my life. It usually works really well, but I don't know how to do it for this.
How do I mentally take responsibility for things that seem to be totally out of my control? Like when I read an article about the
oceans becoming completely toxic for mammalian life?
I never dumped toxic waste into the ocean.
In fact, I never invaded Iraq. I never made people into slaves to harvest a crop. I never setup a bogus reserve banking system to steal money from a nation. I never grew genetically modified crops.
When it comes to empowerment it makes me feel decidedly better to admit that I
didn't do these things and
not take responsibility for them. Know why? BECAUSE I NEVER DID THEM. And I'm tired of feeling responsible for everyone else's mistakes..
The day I hold a gun to someone's face to get them to harvest coffee beans, or cut down some old growth trees, or tell someone they are going to burn in Hell for some fictitious indiscretion against a God I made up, I'll accept responsibility for these kinds of actions.