No, Juniper doesn’t just want to change your values, he wants total control over your life.
For more than four decades the front lines of environmental campaigning have been located in the worlds of politics and technology. New laws driving cleaner and more efficient ways of doing things have been at the core of the environmental agenda, and up to a point it has worked.
But now we are reaching the limits to what politics and technology can deliver. To make progress on environmental challenges at the scale needed it is necessary to have more public participation, for example in changing consumption patterns and in visibly backing more sustainable lifestyles.
But how should the green agenda be put to people for greatest effect? Repeating statistics, imploring people to change their ways and warning of doom if they don’t hasn’t worked to the extent needed. It seems that something else is necessary.
“But how should the green agenda be put to people for greatest effect? ”
As smoke and ashes!
“The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.”
Those who seek to control others have no tolerance for change, and those who seek to be controlled have no desire for change.
Only those who have no interest in controlling or being controlled will be motivated to make any changes in their world, and when enough people are permitted the freedom to change their own worlds, the world for all will change, usually for the better because that is the type of change the Independents are wreaking.
Does this mean that deniers aren’t Settlers, Prospectors, or Pioneers, but the barbarians at the gate? This time the Indians win!!