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In reply to the discussion: Hey DU community! I love you, but nobody seems interested in... [View all]Codeine
(25,586 posts)17. I don't think it is necessarily
about being uninterested or behind the times so much as being a bit cynical and jaded about the shouting of class-skipping schoolchildren accomplishing much. Theyll be really into this for a little while and then move on to whatever other activity about which their social media feed tells them to be excited.
All of us can take concrete steps in our lives that will accomplish more than any amount of yammering in the street. Stop eating meat and dairy. Use air travel only as absolutely needed. Limit your automobile use. Use heating and cooling with less abandon. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
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Hey DU community! I love you, but nobody seems interested in... [View all]
DemocracyMouse
Mar 2019
OP
I've posted several times about the ongoing protests in Europe by young people and there has
jalan48
Mar 2019
#5
My daughter participated today in Italy. She's there for her junior year of HS. Gave her
iluvtennis
Mar 2019
#13
Yammering on the street does a lot more good than yammering on the internet to the choir. n/t
theophilus
Mar 2019
#45
Know why I'm In For Inslee? Because we both agree with you! Here are my postings:
ancianita
Mar 2019
#15
Thank you! I don't know if people are aware of the short time before a tipping point.
Maggiemayhem
Mar 2019
#24
We're not, I'm happy to report. She's a Nobel Prize nominee for her climate change effort. YAY!
ancianita
Mar 2019
#25
I am. And Governor Jay Inslee is very interested in a global effort. POTUS for him soon.
trickyguy
Mar 2019
#27