28th
Remember back in elementary school where on days the teachers wanted a break they’d show us educational films about Sacajawea or the Rainforest? The historical ones were always Ken Burns style, never any animation or video, but the ones about the Rainforest and Acid Rain… those were intense. The warning they gave was this: unless ‘we’ -as in all the big grownups- stop cutting down the rainforests and polluting our atmosphere, our planet will slowly die.
Well… now we’re the big grownups. And we’re still cutting down rainforest, we’re still polluting our atmosphere.
Where’s that little kid inside of you? The one who said s/he’d care about the environment?
Those big corporations - the ones whose factories drive out endless consumer goods, the ones who punch out trendy cars that get worse mileage than the Ford model T, what are you doing to stop them?
Now that you’re a grown up with buying power, are you going to keep buying their shit? Do you really need a new wardrobe every season? Are there things you could do without? Are there sturdier, more ethically made alternatives to disposable goods?
The upper class gets to set the trends for the lower class. Right now, our upper class is sending a clear message to everyone else: the only way to be cool is to buy lots of crap, to wear expensive and trendy-beautiful clothing, and to make as much money as possible. Your material posessions define who you are.
What if the upper class sent a message of sustainability and conscious consumerism?
