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  Death of Environmentalism

  Bravo Adrienne for your fresh voice. I'm tired of the doomsaying fundraisers preaching to the choir. The environmental movement has become marginalized by the manipulation of the media. We fight back with our $. Every purchasing decision is a political decision. Until organic food and sustainable materials are affordabe in comparison with chemically raised produce and plastics, until the retail costs of plastics reflects their true cost in the degradation of our health we will not begin to see wholesale changes. You are talking reality, the daily life of most the people on this planet. We are victims of advertising, victims of our poverty, our daily struggle to get food on the table, victims of consumerism that has convinced us that our lives stink and if only we had whatever is being sold, everything would be better. I know how to say no to advertising, but I don't have TV, I'm educated. I struggle to teach my children to say no to advertising but the stuff they are taught to want is everywhere, even in the schools.
  Bravo Adrienne. We do need new words, words that have not been coopted, words that do not polarize or alienate others, words that bring together, that acknowledge common interests, that recognize the diverse groups both the "right" and "left" whose power together seems improbable and would be unstoppable.On Dramatizing the "death" of environmentalism doesn't help urban people of color, or anyone else posted 4 years, 7 months ago 21 Responses