We have a structural problem because you can simultaneously understand the medium to long-term risks of climate change and also come to the conclusion that it is in your short-term economic interest to invest in oil and gas. Which is why, you know, anybody who tells you that the market is going to fix this on its own is lying to you.
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The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.
We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
One shouldn't gamble with what is irreplaceable and precious.
When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?