Also, my thanks to jtglover for the link to this article, which boldly, sensibly states why yesterday should be the last Earth Day.
See, I thought this was a great article, but for me, it really only succeeded in inspiring despair than action. I have a hard enough time applying personal ecological responsibility (recycling, using public transportation, diminishing energy usage), how in the hell am I supposed to take responsibility for the rest of the damn nation (much less the world?). I concur that it is the profit systems which must be reformed in order to allow progress - but how in the lickety fuck is the individual to affect the megalithic structure? Earth Day's slacktivism won't, conscientious consumers won't, advocacy and political action appear gridlocked into impotence, and rhetorical and symbolic manifestos of protest (such as the call to "action" in this article) weigh in so anemically with regard to practical action/effort/work as to be functionally irrelevant. So what the hell is the answer? Is there a roadmap? A plan? An outline? Some notes on a postcard? Anything?
I am an angry, confused talking-monkey. Which, realistically speaking, means I'm walking around with my gob gaping; waiting for the first montebank's hook to come along, ready to be swept up by the first promise of an illusory solution (or better yet, an imaginary scapegoat).
Only because you asked for it...
See, I thought this was a great article, but for me, it really only succeeded in inspiring despair than action. I have a hard enough time applying personal ecological responsibility (recycling, using public transportation, diminishing energy usage), how in the hell am I supposed to take responsibility for the rest of the damn nation (much less the world?). I concur that it is the profit systems which must be reformed in order to allow progress - but how in the lickety fuck is the individual to affect the megalithic structure? Earth Day's slacktivism won't, conscientious consumers won't, advocacy and political action appear gridlocked into impotence, and rhetorical and symbolic manifestos of protest (such as the call to "action" in this article) weigh in so anemically with regard to practical action/effort/work as to be functionally irrelevant. So what the hell is the answer? Is there a roadmap? A plan? An outline? Some notes on a postcard? Anything?
I am an angry, confused talking-monkey. Which, realistically speaking, means I'm walking around with my gob gaping; waiting for the first montebank's hook to come along, ready to be swept up by the first promise of an illusory solution (or better yet, an imaginary scapegoat).