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  1. Does taking off in a jet to Fiji on holiday count as “rising up?”
    Just asking on behalf of the youth climate leadership.
    Also is it ok if they uncancel themselves from colonialism to participate, if they happen to have had the audacity to be born non indigenous?
    Cheers

  2. … because our political leaders are incapable of standing up to the polluters.

    Yes, but that’s only part of the problem. Yes, our part to play is minute compared to the big players. There’s only some much you can recycle, can compost. Its the attitude that counts. And it all helps. But aren’t we all complicit, to a greater or lesser degree. Almost everything has a carbon footprint, some things more than others. Most of us know what, or by now should know, but modifying our behaviour, giving up those things is hard, now so entrenched in our lives that for many such consumption is seen as the norm, or worse, an entitlement. We devise fancy credit systems to mitigate impact and look to governments to regulate the behaviour of big players but surely the buck stops with consumption, conspicuous or otherwise.

  3. I’d like those who rail against the petrochemical industry to consider our dilemna. We can’t live as we do without them. Go through pretty much everything you touch, need, use and consume and you will find that there is oil in it somewhere. Modern medicine needs petrochems, steel production needs fossil fuels, food requires fertilisers and diesel tractors, etc etc.

    I don’t particularly like the petrochemical industry but this is surely chicken and egg with we consumers. What are we actually prepared to do without?

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