(09-24-2019, 01:23 PM)BLINGMW Wrote:(09-24-2019, 12:49 PM)Apoc Wrote: ...drive actual change. Anything else is a self indulgent carbon positive PR stunt.
Most folks do not have the control or the budget to do so. Outside of the government (which is who the protests are aimed at), maybe Jeff Bezos has enough $ to do something? Everyone else is wasting their time if they cannot drive change within a year? MLK didn't end racism, so why did he bother?
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I made no mention of the protests or anything that required money to accomplish. Here's an example that didn't require handlers to fly and pick up a plastic boat.
https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2019...ate-change
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth