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  A different form of consumerism makes us green?

  While I respect the goals and laud the efforts of the environmental movement, I feel a large section of it has simply been hijacked by two factions that have no real place in it.  

  1. The faction that promotes the idea, you are what you buy, so buy green: folks, this type of consumerism is the problem in the first place, simply putting another twist on it isn't really going to change all that much.  Essentially, it seems that some people nowadays have no real core identity at all; so they've essentially created this ideology and religion around the virtue associated with buying the right products, and now their particular brand of consumerism provides them with the identity they sorely need. At least this is how it often seems to me.

  2. The faction that has nothing better to worry about, must be living these very peaceful, yet drab and dull lives, and so worry about a wide variety of things.  What a luxury to worry about whether or not you can keep your child completely plastic-free! The vast majority of the world would laugh that such a topic might create such enormous anguish or heated emotion. They have real things to worry about.

  The most sober approach to the environmental movement is that it is a movement for better community, more social justice, and a better life for all of us.  Focusing on these trivial items just demeans the whole thing, makes it meaningless to the vast majority of the world's people.
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