I remember when I learned about environmentalism as a kid. They took us to the levee and taught us about erosion and showed the line where the coast was over the years until we saw where it was now. Informative and direct, as the levee was maybe 45 minutes from where we lived instead of a vague "the world will flood/melt/die."
Then the made our entire class fucking work on the levee in the blazing hot swamp heat. Had us haul christmas trees, plant them, and do a lot of other grunt work. It was clearly just a defensive measure to maybe slow down the erosion, but it was a necessary effort.
It was a task so simple that a bunch of 10 year olds were capable of doing it, yet I bet 98% of people whining about the climate and the environment wouldn't even bother to do it. Better to scare people into giving money, maybe take a vacation where you scrub oil off ducks and take selfies for a few days. No hard work.
The most effort modern ones will take is to do zero work on their property and say the overgrown mess is a natural habitat for bees or something. I mean if you really cared, some well placed shade trees (could even get fruit ones), a vegetable garden, and some beehives would do worlds more difference than your dumb lazy nature yard.
Hell I know one with a pecan tree and they don't even gather them. Like they are free you idiot. I actually used to take a walk at work every day where there were pecan trees and pick them up off the ground. More than I'd ever want for almost zero effort.
I remember when I learned about environmentalism as a kid. They took us to the levee and taught us about erosion and showed the line where the coast was over the years until we saw where it was now. Informative and direct, as the levee was maybe 45 minutes from where we lived instead of a vague "the world will flood/melt/die."
Then the made our entire class fucking work on the levee in the blazing hot swamp heat. Had us haul christmas trees, plant them, and do a lot of other grunt work. It was clearly just a defensive measure to maybe slow down the erosion, but it was a necessary effort.
It was a task so simple that a bunch of 10 year olds were capable of doing it, yet I bet 98% of people whining about the climate and the environment wouldn't even bother to do it. Better to scare people into giving money, maybe take a vacation where you scrub oil off ducks and take selfies for a few days. No hard work.
The most effort modern ones will take is to do zero work on their property and say the overgrown mess is a natural habitat for bees or something. I mean if you really cared, some well placed shade trees (could even get fruit ones), a vegetable garden, and some beehives would do worlds more difference than your dumb lazy nature yard.
Hell I know one with a pecan tree and they don't even gather them. Like they are free you idiot. I actually used to take a walk at work every day where there were pecan trees and pick them up off the ground. More than I'd ever want for almost zero effort.