Sunday, May 2, 2010
Green Revolution
I have always been concerned with being more sustainable, and after take Moving Toward Sustainability, I am even more aware of the impact that my everyday actions make on the Earth. I now have the knowledge to a sustainable individual and I feel like its my duty to inform people that are ignorant to the Green Movement about what they can do. It will take the help from everybody to fix what we have done to this Earth, and I think that transcendence is just as important as recycling and energy conservation. All throughout history there have been revolutions against the many atrocities that the government, as well as humans in general, have committed. The most recent in the United States being the protests against the Vietnam War, millions of American's came together to advocate for peace and love. The most pressing issue in the United States, and all over the world, is how much, and how rapidly, we are polluting the Earth. More and more people are realizing that action needs to be taken to fix this, but the people that really need to be convinced to go Green are our political leaders. As unfortunate as it is, politicians control everything, with out their support we can't get anywhere. This is why I propose a revolution. It takes the power of millions of people, with the same goal, to overcome great social obstacles such as this. For the whole Earth to become Green, we need the strength that comes from a outright revolution.
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I like the spirit of this idea that a revolution is needed. There are several different models of revolution available and not all need to involve violence. I am sure that these non-violent forms are what you would be advocating here. You should be aware that the term “green revolution” has been used in the past to describe an industrialization of agriculture in Mexico, and other developing nations. This historical (1965 and on) green revolution has been called a great step forward in food production, which is true, but also a great disaster for many of the farmers in the areas affected because of increased costs, debt load and pollution. Green revolution is also used sometimes to describe the election protests in Iran over this past winter. That is all to say that the term green revolution may already too bogged down with baggage to be a good rallying cry for what you propose. However, this nomenclature issue should not detract from the real substance of your argument that we do need some kind of action on a larger scale in the form of protests, activism and awareness. I appreciate the enthusiasm. The question we must now face in moving toward sustainability is how best to stimulate this action and what the most effective leverage points might be upon which to act. I think that to determine what these short-term steps may be we need to more effectively imagine a sustainable future that is the longer term goal. Only with a vision of what we are seeking will we be able to effectively revolt or evolve against the current paradigm.
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