Everyone’s got a metaphor, and ours was the potluck dinner. If we were going to build a climate change movement, and we didn’t have any money or any organization, how could we do it? We decided to throw a party. Invite our friends. Have them invite their friends. See what happened. And you know what? It worked. On April 14,… return to article
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Reader Comments (2)Page 1 of 1 pagesI sincerely wish you luck. I have spent the last 20 years of my life preaching the need to change our life-style, looking after nature, refusing to use products which come in disposable bottles, or else making their manufacturers responsible for their recollection and recycling, not using chemicals that are harmful, the need to forbid the manufacture of huge cars because itīs simply stupid to use several tons of metal plus the petrol consumption just to carry a human body, the return to natural crops.
I know these ideas are not popular, people usually stare at you as if you were out of your mind and that is why the world is in danger as it is, because nobody wants to assume its share of responsibility in the general chaos. I am on your side all the way.
Right now I am living in Costa Rica, which was once a natural paradise but is now on the verge of collapse, with garbage dumped in every river, beautiful trees chopped down for greed or to build another stupid mall. Squirrels, butterflies and birds have vanished and the landscape has disappeared behind huge signs encouraging people to consume all kind of unnecessary stuff.
Posted by Maria on Apr 11, 2007 at 8:26 PM That’s sad ! Some years back my now wife and I wrote about John Hull, the CIA rancher running the Contra drugs for guns network in Costa Rica. Z, April, 1990. We were thinking of retiring there but it sounds like the Bay Area now.
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