decided to claim individual responsibility for the problems that plague our society is name is jordan phoenix author of the book it's all my fault how i messed up the world and why i need your help to fix it he joins me now from our new york studio thanks so much for coming on jordan. it's good to be here so jordan explain why you personally messed up the world because you're just one of seven billion people on it. so i create garbage i burn fossil fuels i'm a consumer i don't know how to live without the systems we have in place today and so the way i look at it is i'm just as responsible as anyone else we all use all of these systems and all these products but we love to point fingers at other people when in realistic terms we should really be focusing on what we can do to change ourselves because that's the most powerful way to take action jordan why should the onus be put on the individual when the main factors contributing to these issues are the out of control multinational corporations and inept governments. it's a very good question abbi well all of the governments that you speak of i