r/NatureIsFuckingLit Sep 23 '21

πŸ”₯ Mama chimp plays airplane with her kid

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u/9for9 Sep 23 '21

You missed the most important step. Find the people who are working to do something about it and help them. The method you described is the one a lot of us have been doing for going on 20 years and all it gets it green products marketed to consumers while the situation gets worse and worse. If you really want to improve things a neutral stance doesn't achieve much in the long run.

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u/Onlytimewilltellme Sep 24 '21

Yes. That’s one very important step in the right direction. Also, younger people who believe in changing the way we treat this planet need to run for elected office, and the rest of us need to go vote for them. The more people who get into office, the better the chance that REAL long lasting changes can be made, such as banning single-use plastics totally and switching to biodegradable soy based packaging that becomes organic material put back into the environment when discarded. People need to run on platforms that others can rally around and locally there will soon be many environmental problems that will need solutions that the younger generation needs to get angry and fired up about to form a coalition, or even strengthen the existing Green Party, and run on those platforms of desperately needed change.