jedrider wrote:... willing to take the fight to the politicians and fossil fuel interests.
Yes. Talking truth to power. Hard to do at any age.
Even harder when detractors scorn everything about you; yet, strangely, ignore the truth of your message.
But Greta's doing it. Good on her.
Meadows et al. on
Truth-Telling:
We are no more certain of the truth than anyone is. But we often know an untruth when we hear one. Many untruths are deliberate, understood as such by both speaker and listeners. They are put forth to manipulate, lull, or entice, to postpone action, to justify self-serving action, to gain or preserve power, or to deny an uncomfortable reality.
Lies distort the information stream. A system cannot function well if its information streams are corrupted by lies. One of the most important tenets of systems theory . . . is that information should not be distorted, delayed, or sequestered.
All of humanity is in peril, said Buckminster Fuller, if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth and all the truth, and to do so promptly right now. (Buckminster Fuller 1981). Whenever you speak to anyone, on the street, at work, to a crowd, and especially to a child, you can endeavor to counter a lie or affirm a truth. You can deny the idea that having more things makes one a better person. You can question the notion that more for the rich will help the poor. The more you can counter misinformation, the more manageable our society will become.
Source; Meadows, D., J. Randers, & D. Meadows. (2004) Tools for the Transition to Sustainability, In
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update, 265-284. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company.
Oceans rise, empires fall. - Apocalypse Lullaby, Wailin' Jennys.
Plant a garden. Soon.