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In reply to the discussion: It's Eerie; Climate Disaster Is Happening Right Now & Humanity Is Just Pretending It's Not Happening [View all]bhikkhu
(10,715 posts)Demanding action without taking action individually just makes us the biggest hypocrites in the world, and in the end kills any political effort.
For instance, why do we have people so upset about the price of gas one day, and then so upset about global climate change the next? If you don't understand the connection you are very unlikely to effectively support the politics that will make a difference. The best way to understand the connections between things is to make them a part of your own life - to do yourself what you are asking other people to do. How many people hang their clothes out to dry? Bicycle to work? Bring their own reusable bags to the grocery store? and so on...individual action makes a great deal of difference over time, and is very much needed if we are to ever reach the "cultural tipping point" where we can live sustainably as a people.
At some point, those who reject individual action will be replaced by those who embrace it, whether it is a matter of being replaced from within by transformation of our culture, or replaced from without by another culture that lives within the means of the planet.