http://www.safeclimate.org.au/climaterally

I couldn't help noticing the absence of 'the mainstream' (whoever they are) at today's rally. The 2000-odd people in forrest place, perth were the usual crowd of enviro kids, ferals, socialists, aging hippies etc that u'd expect at such an event. The placards and chants were mind-numbingly unoriginal... "what do you want? 100% renewables, when do you want it? now!". Even the same old foe in government was once castagated as inadequate/incompetent/ideologically bankrupt/evil...

perhaps it was a case of us collectively wanting to remain under our collective safety blanket of virtuosity by obsfucating total responsibility for Australia's poor climate targets to government. But this is a democracy not a dictatorship. We're partly to blame for the governement's inaction by not popularising our worldview - politicians are merely puppets that pander to public opinion. Perhaps we need to consider why we have such little influence over our mainstream bros and sistas. How do we create a people's movement that so radically shakes the dominant consumerist/capistist paradigm to favour simple living???

How to we empower people to follow us without being coercive or critical of their dream/worldview/ imperfection??