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(6,335 posts)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.