Certainly we can take personal responsibility for those things we can be personally responsible for. However, so much is out of our personal control: climate change, plastic pollution, wealth inequality, our work environments and the number of hours we are required to work to support our families, the prevalence of communicable disease when some of us refuse to take preventive measures, and so forth. But back to those things we can take personal responsibility for: Taking personal responsibility is what we can AND MUST do.