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Originally Posted by samIamsad
This may sound cruel to some, but to get things moving, environmental protection badly needs its very own 9/11 to ever take seriously off. The eye-opener that gets people thinking, making them realize that this isn't something vague shown on TV occasionally, but indeed something serious.
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What about Hurricane Katrina? Last year there was an unprecedented number of natural disasters which have been linked by a number of scientists to climate change.
Even if the ground opened up and the fires of hell shot out and enveloped an entire country, we'd probably just keep driving our SUVs saying "thank god it didn't happen to us." Throughout our entire lives we've been hammered over the head that bigger is better, and more is cheaper. Everywhere you go there are ads telling us to buy useless shit and what do we do? We buy it? Because we don't know anything else anymore. There's no such thing as spiritual enlightenment in the west anymore. Instead we seek to improve the quality of our lives through consumption.
All this to say that mother nature's 9/11 probably wouldn't be enough to open our eyes. Not unless someone could make some money off of it.
