For the past few years, one of my major obsessions has had to do with the environment, and garbage, specifically plastic. I recycle everything I can, but it just seems hopeless. I start thinking about landfills, and that plastic bottles take thousands of years to degrade. I see those pictures from heavily polluted areas in China, and around the world, and just start to wonder about the human species. This obsession really bothers me and can ruin me having a good time, for example seeing trash on the beach disgusts me and makes me want to leave. I've had other obsessions over the years, and many times there is an uncertainty to whether or not they are true, but how can I argue with myself about our planet being in dire straights? I'm also not sure if it's a kind of responsibility type OCD, like somehow it's my job to fix the environment, but I know there's no way. How do you argue with obsessions like these, that are logical? I always cared about the environment, but I can't stand thinking about every plastic bottle in the ocean.