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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Of course there is noise and confusion; we're still figuring all of this stuff out. The green marketing (advertising, PR, and shifting products and services) from companies that are afraid of losing sales only muddles the mind.
Most of the things that people are willing to do are usually the simplest and cheapest, yet they are more often than not the things that have the smallest (if not negligible) impact.
If or when we hit a crisis of energy and/or environmental degradation, we will need to endure the greatest shift in society we've seen since the end of the Great Wars. It's unfortunate, but I don't see it any other way.
Thanks for the article.
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Personally I don't think that we're still figuring this out. If we are trying to figure this out, we're trying to figure out how to monetize and profit from it.
Conservation hasn't changed. The underlying ideas of conservation have been the same since I was a kid in boy scouts and people who lived through the depression.
Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do with out.
That mantra seems to make much more sense and fit within the world as we know and have known it rather than "Change your lightbulbs, Change your car." It seems to be that it's just a twist on comsumption of goods and services to light yet another "revolution" akin to the purchasing that was done for Y2K. "We got people to replace all their electronics, let's get them to change all their foodstuff, clothing, books, materials and charge them more for it since it's organic or eco-friendly."
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