Environmentalism

The environment is essential to human life and we must take care of how we use it to protect our health.

Nature is the essential ultimate provider of everything all living things like us need to survive. People’s actions have consequences and if we don’t take care not to spoil and destroy the natural order of life on earth, not only do we drive other species extinct but also we threaten our own species with ultimate extinction. Damage to our environment affects our health when the poisons we dump into the water, air and food filter back into our bodies to make us sicken and die.

Related Ideas: Anti-Pollution, Anti-Ozone Depletion, Anti-Global Warming, Anti-Acid Rain, Anti-Species Extinction, Regulation, Safety, Anti-Deregulation, Anti-Greed, Planning, Community, Democracy, Human Rights, Dissent, Litigation, Activism

Quotes

“We didn’t inherit this land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children”

—Lakota Sioux Proverb

“I was probably pre-disposed toward conservatism since I was raised in a military family and grew up in Texas, a state that has a low tolerance for unionism and a high tolerance for guns and the death penalty. Nonetheless, in my 20s I had a small streak of liberalism that manifested itself in Sierra Club-like activities. This was due to an extensive amount of back country hiking and wilderness backpacking.”

—M. Mosher (ask)

Sun-drying Laundry

It’s a simple way to save tons of energy.

Conservationism

People should campaign for, support, and work toward the preservation, management, and care of the environment's natural resources, especially of the countryside.

“Thank god they cannot cut down the clouds!”

—Henry David Thoreau

Environmental Activism

Development of health problems because of industrial waste. Chemicals. Asthma, epilepsy, depressed immune system, leukemia, blood problems... Disadvantage. Pollution/toxin system.

“It’s my fault, I made a decision that I would wait for someone else to do something about this, what kind of a responsible mother would I be to sit back and wait for my kids to be poisoned... I knocked on my neighbor’s doors and found 56% with birth defects like serious mutations... There are many people out there who are not doing this because of professional growth but because children are dying. If somebody somewhere gave a permit which is a license to kill as far as I’m concerned, they have to be stopped.”

—Louise Gibbs, Tragedy at Love Canal 2. 10:30

If you remove people from exposure they can become well. Diseases recover. They said its chronic – it’s not, the situation was chronic.

Fighting companies for money to move away.

Connect industrial waste into environmental effects on characters.

Tree Sitting

One way of stopping logging is to take to the trees as a human shield. http://www.tree-sit.org/

Trigger: Anti-Logging,

Conservationism, Environmentalism, Courage, Self-Sacrifice, Non-Violent Direct Action, Media Spectacle, Confrontation, Anti-Corporatism

Anti-Extinction

quote from suzuki E O Wilson The idea that extinction is natural, and so has it ever been,... denial”

Overpopulation Control

“Present birth rates are bringing too many people into the world. The planet is filling to carrying capacity. If people do not reduce the number of children they have, we will face serious environmental consequences. By choosing to limit the number of offspring we have, we reduce the burden on our resources to more sustainable levels, ensuring a better future for the children we do have.”

—http://www.populationconnection.org/

“Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase.
This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.”

—Frank Herbert, Dune