While the efforts are certainly not futile, the results of such bans will likely only start to be seen by generations down the line, bettering the world for the future.
Despite the inconvenience of the traffic in which I had to take a 40-minute bus to school, my host family gave the warmest and most comfortable 'second home' for me.
Spain would be better off now if it had never adopted the euro - but trying to leave would create a huge banking crisis, as depositors raced to move their money elsewhere.
We should make greet efforts and strive to accomplish something, we can say we have not wasted our life, and even leave our footmarks on the sandy beach of time.