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posted by [identity profile] 1ngi.livejournal.com at 10:26am on 29/02/2008
So offsets, priuses, etc, etc: Inappropriate solutions or stepping stones to change?

So on reading your comment, I, ordinary joe, wanna give up, cocoon into my friends and family and make a mental note to keep a stash of pain killers to swallow when the shit hits the fan.

I clearly remember coming home from school at 12 years old having learned about Hiroshima for the very first time. I stood in the living room looking at the roses growing in the garden and my head was spinning in shock and distress. I cried all evening. It was 1980 and we in the midst of the cold war. There was no where to run to and we had no where to hide.

Here we are again - only it's worse. I know that. But I'm not going to give up. I totally agree - we need a WW2 effort on a global scale. But the beauty of the WW2 effort and its acceptance and adoption by the public was due to raising and maintaining moral. You can achieve a certain amount by haranguing people into change, you can achieve far more by inspiring them.
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posted by [identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com at 10:34am on 29/02/2008
Offsets, Priuses, etc; actively damaging, giving the warm fuzzy feeling of having done something while actually being somewhere between pointless and negative in effect. Giving people the impression they can keep flying or driving isn't any kind of stepping stone to swallowing the unpalatable truth.

We might achieve _more_ by inspiring people but (regrettably) the only government that seems to be achieving anything is China and they're achieving it by being a repressive police state. I'm not quite sure what to make of that.
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