All of you have calculated your emissions and you have surely discovered the unexpectedly high impact of some of your behaviors (eating meat, flying to a sunny destination, etc.) on your total footprints.
Are there any behaviors that you are really willing to change or to improve for the sake of the environment? What challenges do you encounter or think you will encounter while trying to change these things? What help, support, and insights from others would make your life easier with these new behaviors?
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About direct action
Direct action can be done in several ways.One of those ways is by protesting.Now there is a difference between peaceful protest and the extreme things some people do like tying yourself to ships and disabling ship engines etc.You can protest in front of a corporation headquarters(better than protesting in front of ships and dig sites because the people in charge are not on the ships or dig sites).Sometimes extreme measures are necessary to get attention but sometimes the line between protesting and hooliganism is crossed,like when u go protesting and crash the machinery on a dig site,that is not protesting that is vandalism.But what are we really gaining with the extreme things people do.Lets take the student who tied herself to the ship as an example.Sure she got media attention but it wasnt the leaders of the corporation who had to make her untie herself it was the workers on the ship, it is not their fault they have to these things they probably have families to feed and needed the job.So when someone does something like this they get called by the leaders of corp oration to deal with the problem while the managers and leaders sit in their offices so isn't it better to protest in front of the corporal headquarters than on dig site or in front of ships.
Hi Ivan
I appreciate your perspective on this. I think that the girl from Bellingham (Debra D'Angelo) was trying to get the most possible attention for her cause. You must admit that the press are more likely to cover the story of a girl chaining herself to a ship's anchor than a story of a girl protesting in front of Shell Oil's headquarters.
As for the workers on the ship...I think Debra would probably be sympathetic to their need for a job, but she would hope that they would try to find a job that she feels is not destructive to the environment.
Anyway, it's an interesting dilemma, isn't it?