Trying to save the world from the ground up. Can anybody help?

[KosaBrin]

Hello everyone! I am writing to you with a question. But it needs a little explanation. This forum was suggested to me by users of Reddit and it looks like a good place to just ask.

Me and a bunch of other people have decided to form a group and try to save the world. We thought a lot about it and we came to the conclusion, that we need to start locally and then expand. But our problem is that our country is very small in the first place and our municipality is mostly older people that do not use the internet. But they do vote. So everything is run by people over 65, with some very backwards ideas. Sustainability is not really a concern to those people.

In order to fight back those unsustainable ideas, we need public support. But in our censored country that is really tough to do. So we hope we can use social media to get more attention. We create videos in English, so they have a wider reach. We talk about sustainability issues all the time. Our way is the way of humor. At least in the first stage of our plan. We are trying to appeal to a broad audience even though the things we talk about are not really liked. Themes like overshoot, habitat loss and the lack of sustainable ideas. I guess many people on this sub know what I am talking about. At least I hope so.

Since our country is too small and the population too old (and concerned with their pensions, not the future of their offspring) we need people from all around the globe to help us. It doesn't take much for the firs part of our plan to succeed. Just subscribe to our channel, hit the like and leave a few comments if you can. We calculated that we need about 2k subscribers in order to have enough of an effect. Our municipality has about 1.8k people living in it. So if we had the support of 2k people, we would have some leverage to change our leaders minds. Very much by the principle of the "John Oliver effect."

Once we manage to get to this stage, we will lunch a donation campaign to restore an old building and make a hostel free of charge out of it. The hostel would be intended for volunteers to have a place to sleep at. The volunteers will be "used" to restore jet another house to its former glory and form even more space for even more volunteers. The houses will be all build with local materials. As original as possible, with some advantages of modernity (composting toilet etc.). Once 3 such buildings are repaired, phase 3 will begin.
In phase 3 we will use about 20 volunteers to work their way thorough the whole of the municipality and rebuild all the old buildings (there is a lot of abandoned houses in this area) and to create kind of an eco-friendly, green municipality. That will be combined with eco-tourism, local economics, and a few other useful things.

Phase 4 assumes that the local population is already happy with the changes and is barging about it to people from other municipalities. And as we know - if my neighbor has a new car, I need a new car too! So we hope to not only give a positive example, but to trigger kind of a social change that is needed before we can save the planet (and ourselves).

I think that is enough at this point...
So my question is: is anybody here willing to help us? If so, please go and watch our first video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRP0zoqbLas&t=18s. If you like what you see, please subscribe, like and write a comment or two. We might have a chance of succeeding if we only get enough people in time (I know, a low chance, but a chance non the less).

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask.

Thanks for at least reading it all.

The KosaBrin Society

[UndercoverElephant]

Hi. Welcome to Powerswitch, I am sure you will feel at home here.

Very funny video. You have an uphill struggle trying to save the world though...