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bread_and_roses

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32. Pissing into the wind
Mon Nov 26, 2012, 10:52 AM
Nov 2012

All good and worthy actions, but while individual action may be worthy as a personal discipline, but it has just about zero effect. I have done every single one of those things for years. So have many others who took the "reduce and reuse" as seriously as the "recycle." I still do them, but not because I believe any of my actions have the slightest impact.

As for getting "your uncle, brother, sister, cousin, boyfriend, girlfriend, mom, dad, aunt, friends to do the same" - well, you won't. It's like saying "if only" - if only our Corporate Masters were kinder and gentler and less greedy and more responsible! If only! And even if they did, unless source pollution and production are altered it would make no difference. I can recycle till doomsday, but the products I'm recycling have already put an intolerable burden on the ecosystem in the manufacturing process. I can turn my thermostat down till I near freeze, and there is no less pollution from the oil and gas that fuels the heat I do use.

As for the Sierra Club, phfffttttt. Many dedicated individual activists on the ground, to be sure - unfortunately the organization itself sold out to Corporate and political forces.

K&R for the only story that matters in the long run hatrack Nov 2012 #1
Kick, this is incredible and dangerous. n/t Agschmid Nov 2012 #2
But my compact fluorescent light bulbs! Gregorian Nov 2012 #3
Could you explain... SkyDaddy7 Nov 2012 #22
"Could you explain... What you mean by your comment?" greiner3 Nov 2012 #30
Excellent. Someone else sees the forest for the trees. Gregorian Nov 2012 #42
People (and the media) won't get it. progressoid Nov 2012 #4
The point that is lost is the interconnectedness of everything and that our number zonkers Nov 2012 #7
absolutely yes, you are so correct. northoftheborder Nov 2012 #9
Snails arent dying ... just their shells are dissolving JustABozoOnThisBus Nov 2012 #33
No, because Freedom NoOneMan Nov 2012 #5
Climate change has become so obvious, yet we do nothing. olddad56 Nov 2012 #6
I do agree with you; however, they could be like me: What in the world juajen Nov 2012 #10
try to reduce yours and your neighbor's carbon footprints, though it's hard CreekDog Nov 2012 #14
My condo association has started a landscaping committee lunatica Nov 2012 #27
This is the flag of the New Rebellion! bvar22 Nov 2012 #35
Uh oh... nt ZombieHorde Nov 2012 #8
Like an aquarium that one morning you wake up and glinda Nov 2012 #11
The entire ecosystem will eventually spiral into an unrecoverable catastrophe. UnrepentantLiberal Nov 2012 #12
Is this why the coral is bleaching? That has accelerated too, no? n/t ProfessionalLeftist Nov 2012 #13
Yes & no... SkyDaddy7 Nov 2012 #23
So many things we don't understand. AAO Nov 2012 #15
I believe they have stopped harvesting coral for jewelry in many places. Manifestor_of_Light Nov 2012 #16
K&R JDPriestly Nov 2012 #17
Don't take the attitude there's nothing you can do about global warming Thekaspervote Nov 2012 #18
You should start your own threads about this lunatica Nov 2012 #28
Pissing into the wind bread_and_roses Nov 2012 #32
This is why I've given up on yall RobertEarl Nov 2012 #37
Small things help... marions ghost Nov 2012 #38
BOTH: Individual efforts to reduce and Individual Activism to cause gov't action to reduce CreekDog Nov 2012 #40
K&R cosmicone Nov 2012 #19
So sad, Factory farming is at fault SariesNightly Nov 2012 #20
Livestock is responsible for... SkyDaddy7 Nov 2012 #24
Factory farming 7 billion humans on the planet, yes NickB79 Nov 2012 #41
Extensive information on the subject here dipsydoodle Nov 2012 #21
Very bad situation Franker65 Nov 2012 #25
Yep, exactly, like a dead canary in a mine. n/t RKP5637 Nov 2012 #29
Consider them the canaries in the ocean lunatica Nov 2012 #26
kick for "Oh Shit" phantom power Nov 2012 #31
Kick nt Hissyspit Nov 2012 #34
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Nov 2012 #36
I'm really getting sick of this PETA nonsense. Warren Stupidity Nov 2012 #39
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