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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor

 

Forget Shorter Showers : Why personal change does not equal political change.

inthefade:

Or let’s talk energy. Kirkpatrick Sale summarized it well: “For the past 15 years the story has been the same every year: individual consumption—residential, by private car, and so on—is never more than about a quarter of all consumption; the vast majority is commercial, industrial, corporate, by agribusiness and government [he forgot military]. So, even if we all took up cycling and wood stoves it would have a negligible impact on energy use, global warming and atmospheric pollution.”

This, this, this. Read this.

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    :D
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    true. all of it. Except passive resistance on...large enough scale
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    What Shah said. Every little bit counts. (But it’s nice to be reaffirmed that my passion for the automobile isn’t single...
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    Agreed. The article says a lot of excellent and important things, but I’ve seen people then use the reality of the...
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    there is a lot in this article I agree with. while living simply and reducing plastic waste is something I’m quite...
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    yeah, ok, i guess. Except that ‘living simply’ isn’t some kind of political act through which I purify myself, I do it...
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