Maine study finds potentially disastrous threat to single-celled plants that support all life

[TalkingDog]

20. I know you are being snarky, but there is an idea out there that changing your own actions

might make you feel better, but in the end accomplishes almost nothing. However that energy, spent in concert with the like minded becomes a force. Because it's changing the actions of the mega-polluters (agri-biz farms, coal fired power plants, corexit using oil companies) that can actually have substantial impact.

But that means enacting laws and we know where that cul-de-sac ends up.

"Personal virtue and atomized action will not prevent disaster, because personal evil didn’t cause the problem. It’s political dysfunction that’s driving us into the ditch: Capture of our politicians, our elections, and our public discourse by those whose revenue streams depend on the continuation and expansion of a fossil fuel economy."

And yes, I realize that part of why we are here on DU.

But I often see this framed as a problem of "personal virtue", to reference the quote and it is not. Not by a long shot.