Is there an EcoBubble?
“THAT’s it! I’m so sick of putting up with damned cars, taxis, trucks, tanks and armoured vehicles I could burst!” I say to myself around 12pm cycling to my way to the Hub. Why don’t they get out of their stupid cars and cycle with me! I wasn’t saying this to myself 1 year ago.
So what changed? My friends, myself and that little voice that seems to define the line between “US” and “THEM” as thicker and thicker. It seems that since I’ve gone green, so has everyone around me. My friends, my co-workers and even cynical enemies have gone green! We drive our pretty green bicycles to the store and some buy pretty unpackaged things and tell eachother about our pretty holidays wild swimming off the coast of beautiful England or Cornwall.
Are we excluding everyone else? I even broke it off dating a man because he wasn’t green enough! Well, there were other reasons to be fair; I don’t think we were meant to be.
Take one example: Climate Camp. A friend noted the police brutality at ClimateCamp08. Police really were offsetting, but I’m sure there was at least a peppering who cared about the environment just as much as the Campers? And what if, like in Serbia, pushing Milošević out of power in 2000, police marched alongside Campers (military allowed protesters to intrude towards the Milošević and some even joined along in disidence) pushing Eon to hault their dirty coal development and the government to pass the Climate Change Bill.
Well, no. Besides the fact the Climate Change Bill is still under the House of Lords for debate. But I’ll have to admit that inside that Climate Camp there seemed to be great unity despite the large number of representative groups. There were the anarchists, liberals, labors (laborers, too) and conservatives; corporate social responsibility employees, activists, freelancers, government officials, media, families, journalists and bloggers, too.
What then? Maybe the power of advertising can unite us? Maybe politics and society, under the weight of EcoPressure, will get happy and join together. Not in resistance, but in peace. Maybe walking ourselves to school really is the way forward; making each one of us happier and healthier. It’s refreshing to think about a future where not only everyone considers their mental state slightly more, but we also consider how we might impact future generations.
Maybe you think I’m just airy-fairy. That couldn’t be the future of the world because of greed, evil and a countless list of bad. Tell me, then! It’s not just my world, it’s yours too. Leave me a comment about what the world might look like… I’m curious!
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