Comments | dawn_felagund: People's Climate Rally in Montpelier

dawn_felagund

People's Climate Rally in Montpelier

Apr 29, 2017 22:59

Bobby and I went to the climate rally today that was held in Vermont's capital city of Montpelier. Oh, it was tempting to try to go to DC again! But I decided against it. I have a lot going on right now, and I always try to remember the advice I read when reigniting my political activism that one has to take care of oneself ... so I kept it local ( Read more... )

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shirebound April 30 2017, 04:10:50 UTC

I'm proud of both of you.

dawn_felagund April 30 2017, 19:05:07 UTC

Thanks! It really wasn't a sacrifice to sit in the grass on a beautiful spring day listening to impassioned, articulate speakers on a topic we both hold dear. ^_^

oloriel April 30 2017, 09:38:34 UTC

Awesome work! And I completely understand your frustration both with the attitude of - mostly - people who will no longer have to deal with the fallout but aren't shy of claiming "It won't be so bad" - WELL NOT FOR YOU! - and of the ladies who immediately thought Bobby was the "engineer". Argh!

I have to admit the POW thing initially confused the heck out of me because I only know it as an acronym for "Prisoner of War"! (Much like I always do a double-take when some story ends in TBC. Huh? What's Tuberculosis got to do with this? I'm so out of the loop!) But I assume that Protect Our Winters is more familiar to your audience, if they even flew a flag at the statehouse. ^^

Love your sign, anyway! The lettering is gorgeous.

dawn_felagund April 30 2017, 19:15:45 UTC

And I completely understand your frustration both with the attitude of - mostly - people who will no longer have to deal with the fallout but aren't shy of claiming "It won't be so bad"

Cognitive dissonance much?! "We have the choice of feeling badly about sentencing our children to die in natural disasters or famines or water shortages (or the political turmoil that will ensue in the course of the aforementioned) and so NOT continuing in our materialistic ecologically naive lifestyle. OR we can convince ourselves that being stabbed to death with a rusted piece of metal over a bottle of water can't be that bad because giving up giant cars? Or fast food? Bottled water?? Or (gods help us!!) WALMART?? We can't be expected to do all that!!"

Bring on the rusty metal.

I'm being melodramatic of course, but Bobby and I have had the discussion that, since we'll be pretty old when things will likely start to get really bad, if things start to get bad, we need to start stockpiling prescription medications that we can painlessly OD on. I ( ... )

oloriel May 1 2017, 06:52:08 UTC

It's a bit better here - there was a first (?) big wave of climate change awareness as a result of the ozone depletion in the early 1980s, so a lot of people who were our age back then are already pretty aware and quite willing to take counter-measures. Private individuals, at least - but it does have the positive effect that if a lot of people want aerosol cans without CFCs, fridges that don't need quite so much electricity, and cars that make more mileage out of less gas, companies are eventually going to provide. (Which doesn't stop them from the occasional asshatteries, of course. >_ ( ... )