same here all around. but if my octogenerian neighbors can take the time to demand that my great grand children i’ll never meet have a planet worth living on, then i can do the same for the next generations, too. it doesn’t have to be an all consuming fight, it’s a marathon not a sprint, afterall. but that marathon starts with setting a goal, and one of those goals should be a planet where a long term view of resource management is taken. just accepting “it has to be somewhere” ignores the truth that it doesn’t need to be at all. that people’s ancestral lands matter. that clean oceans and ecosystems matter. destroying something in the name of progress isn’t progress.
it doesn’t have to be much. it starts with saying your local community should be cleaner, and that it shouldn’t just dump its waste in another community. we all live together, ultimately.
we both are. but you have to think global and act local. our power is in our ability to convince the people around us that there’s something wrong with the way things are and something to be done about it. so it starts with county politics, state politics, national politics, and then global. movements take years and they always start with shifting what’s possible
cool story bro. I’m getting old and I’m very tired.
same here all around. but if my octogenerian neighbors can take the time to demand that my great grand children i’ll never meet have a planet worth living on, then i can do the same for the next generations, too. it doesn’t have to be an all consuming fight, it’s a marathon not a sprint, afterall. but that marathon starts with setting a goal, and one of those goals should be a planet where a long term view of resource management is taken. just accepting “it has to be somewhere” ignores the truth that it doesn’t need to be at all. that people’s ancestral lands matter. that clean oceans and ecosystems matter. destroying something in the name of progress isn’t progress.
it doesn’t have to be much. it starts with saying your local community should be cleaner, and that it shouldn’t just dump its waste in another community. we all live together, ultimately.
Which community though? Are we not all Americans?
we both are. but you have to think global and act local. our power is in our ability to convince the people around us that there’s something wrong with the way things are and something to be done about it. so it starts with county politics, state politics, national politics, and then global. movements take years and they always start with shifting what’s possible