Reply #16: Which is why community involvement is so important [View All]

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First you talk to your friends and neighbors, then you write LTTE and find other ways to talk to those within your community. You change the opinions you can and then it builds from there.

Sometimes, like with the larger corporations, they need to find out that opinions are changing across America before they start getting the cajones to changes themselves. Right now, large corporations are finding out that people across America are learning, despite the best efforts, that global climate change is real and people's attitudes are changing. As a result, they change their tactics to placate the masses. One of the things that my friends and I talk about is the corporatization of the greening of America. When companies like Wal-Mart promote greening with their line (there was a commercial that advertised www.walmart.green which is now http://www.walmart.com/commonfuture) you can be sure they are doing it as part of keeping their customers and softening their image. Once the corporations jump on board they influence the shows they sponsor which is something the media conglomerates do look at.