I wonder why, the moment anyone talks about injustice and exploitation on a systemic, intergenerational level, the response becomes - am I to impoverish myself and reduce my possessions to zero?

That is obviously neither reasonable nor realistic.

In short, it's everyone's responsibility to work out what can they contribute, how can they consume less, and in what ways can they creatively share their talents, skills, and material resources, , to empower others with less privilege.

In my early 20's I decided the Buddhist principle of 'rightl livilihood is a good starting point - not have your means of livelihood contributing to destruction and mayhem, so don't work for the sugar/tobacco industries , don't work in the defence ie attack industry, as an engineer/soldier/admin person. etc etc - don't enable the mayhem to continue by contributing your energy tie and resources.

I've shared my home with students who were refugees/women escaping domestic violence, and not charged rent, I have never used pesticides in the garden, I 've planted fruit trees, grow veg, share values with the kids in my life that are freeing them from the consumerist, status-seeking mindset that is normalised... overtly political actions include things like going out and supporting the continuous vigil outside the Africaans' -led South African embassy, when people were being tortured and killed for refusing to comply with being exploited and dehumanised...

Everyone has to take responsibility for themselves, and use their common sense and the light of their conscience to guide them, Abby 'Normal'.

The privileged populations of the West, attached to being 'normal' have brought the entire world to its knees, ecologically speaking. Think for yourself: i the positions were reversed, what would you hope for?