It's connecting with the local community and ecology that will allow someone to really start making a difference. Given any place, there are people practicing permaculture and regenerative agriculture. These people are found in community gardens and in the wild. People are working towards r/nolawns, creating pollinator habitats, front-yard wildlife refuges, and perennial food forests. Foragers know things about food and medicine of the land. Mushroom cultivators know things about living soil and remediating contaminated dirt. There are punks sneaking around r/guerillagardening, seed-bombing abandoned patches of urban space with native plants.
The regenerative paradigm rests upon the principle that only living systems regenerate. Hardy pioneer plants -- what many people call weeds -- are constantly recolonizing spaces to prepare them for other plants in the process of ecological succession. The natural world is always healing and regrowing. Our role as humans is not to heroically save the planet or a forest, but to help accelerate the regeneration that is already happening in a way that still works well with human society. You do that by connecting with the immediate land and community around you. That power to regenerate lies within each person that breathes, eats, and sleeps.
I do not like to "evangelize" people, and i truly dislike gurus, so i really hate to recommend books other than fiction or old, not actualized philosophy, but if you think what my parent hosh wrote is great but you either don't believe it can do something, or you want to do the same but don't have any idea how, Olivier Hamant books are great, pragmatic, actionable and positive starting points. It's a fantastic starter to think about what you can do. I disagree with him on some points (i started to expand but it's detrimental to my argument and anyway, most of those reading this did not read him, so it's like arguing with wind :/)
