Changes in the biosphere's composition in the last 12,000 years

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3. Ships don't turn on a dime...

But moving the rudder starts the process of changing heading and direction...
Slowing the engines allows for more turning over shorter distances...muzzling women is akin to hitting the engines to full ahead.

Without concerted small changes, you may be right - large change can seem impossible...but only if we first accept fatalism that does not WANT small changes or large changes. Just because society is on a suicide path doesn't mean it's not worth trying to change course.

An educated (and equally VALUED) woman does NOT have to consent to marriage or child rearing as an only option...in many places with extreme over-population, that is not the case. India, Africa, Indonesia, and other places where women are completely unvalued and systemically oppressed and prevented from even basic education or skills attainment are slaves. One would have thought we crossed that rubicon centuries back...but they would be wrong.