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Of course, the ideas are sound and presentable. It is their enactment that is improbable.
I stand convinced that the root of our collective problem are the rights and privileges that we have allowed for corporations. If you have any quesiton or uncertainty on the matter, you can easily look that up and research the issue.
Just like the industry responses to SiCKO, and the profitable aspects of recycling versus its real impact, (and counterproductive energy costs versus your free and voluntary cooperation), as well as the endless supply of products to consume that feed the problem more than anything else, we have to see this problem at its roots and pull out those roots before any testimony or posturing are to be considered as viable and worth the effort and sacrifice we are compelled to give.
Your corporations are just as much a person as you are. They have the very SAME rights, but their leverage of money and power is far, far greater than you, or even a group of you, could ever muster. This should, no must be, the very core of a platform for any change that you feel is necessary beyond "feel good" and being managed, despite how you feel about Al Gore's rebirth as an innovative, proactive champion.
If you all, as a people, do not work for, demand, and even fight for the demotion of modern corporations from virtual persons, like yourself, back to fictitious agencies that merely reduce liability for practical and functional reasons, then nothing is going to effect the change you are being enticed with now. From what I know about capitalism and corporations to date, this is all simply turning out to be yet another side-show that stifles the necessary dissent to enact something tangible and powerful with the voice of an informed and decisive population acting in unison.
There have been many testimonies and speakers before Congress with many, very righteous intents and purposes, and all you are seeing to date, are the results. Are they satisfying to you, or can you see that every corporation gets what they want and always manages to prosper at your expense. We are talking everything from corporate welfare, (gosh, don't tell the welfare Queens in their new cars) to bailouts, to windfall profits without taxation, to tax breaks, to unfair practices, to exploitation of workers, to whatever else you are in the know about. The corporation itself, (and its Neo-Fascist alliance with, and control of, our own government) should never, ever be taken lightly. It is the iron fist that doles out the opiates that media provides while it takes the larger portion of everything we work for and hold dear.
Now, if we were going to start this trendy environmentalism, (so captivating, and soothing it seems in fact) and have a World-wide concert to the tune of, "unhook the claws of the corporate parasites and profit takers from the fruits of our efforts" sort of thing, that would really get me enthused and I would consider joining that cause as long as it was not yet another guise for corporate control or a revolution for the sake of a controlling cabal, (as the past has proved is often the case).
We have to start at the root of the problem and then work our way up to the others. The environmental problem is largly based on a breaking of the rule that, "You can never get enough of what you don't need to truly make you happy!" We are all guilty of that and the way this system works, we won't have jobs, food, or any kind of livelyhood unless we feed that model of endless expansion with an endless garbage heap for the results. I don't care how many light bulbs you replace or cloth bags you buy, the endless consumption that comes from capitalism is the source and core of our environmental results, period.
That means we ALL (rich and poor alike) have to drastically rethink and change our lifestyles in a rigid way and without loopholes. Who is really willing to rethink and retool and reinvent a society that is based on nothing more than exploiting, despoiling, and polluting the planet in just about everything it does? Nobody imagines a simple, tribal existence as closer to the truth, especially not with 6.5+ billion people served, (I mean exploited and manipulated to one degree or another) daily.
Oh it all really could have gone much better, (but then, would have, could have, and should have are ridiculous and irrational assumptions) but it did not. We have, collectively, played adolescents with every serious and dangerous adult toys, and are directions, desires, and use of said, has left us in a very dire and wanting predicament. A change of consciousness and perspective, for us all, is even more important than stemming the control and dominance of the corporations that pull our strings with such expertise and subtlety.
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