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In reply to the discussion: Indonesia is burning. The greatest environmental disaster of the 21st century. Ignored by US [View all]chervilant
(8,267 posts)Please continue to post news of this nature. Many of our younglings gather their news online. Your online activism IS having an impact, even if you're not seeing results.
I am reminded of my advocacy and activism during graduate school (I volunteered to lecture re: relationship violence): after my lectures, students would cluster around the podium to talk and ask questions. Once, a young woman hung back until every other student had gone. She then told me that she had heard me lecture in another class a couple of years earlier, and that my lecture had profoundly changed her life. She told her mother about my lecture, and her mother decided to focus all of her volunteer time on survivors of relationship violence. And, the young woman decided to focus her journalism on relationship violence issues. I had no idea that my lecture would produce such an outcome, and I am so glad it did. I think it's highly likely you've had similar outcomes.
Besides, it's the willfully ignorant who remain an obstacle to our species' ability to face the crisis that's unfolding before our eyes. Those are the individuals I despair of ever reaching.