Force Change
by director on Feb.22, 2009, under Ecology
With the election of Barack Obama, Americans have assumed a new habit of passivity: Hope has become hoping that people in Washington D.C. will make things better. The thing is that while ordinary folks sit around and hope things get better, there are corporations and powerful organizations with paid lobbyists going to work in Washington D.C. every day to make sure that things don’t change.
If there is to be hope, we have to stop just hoping, and begin acting. We can’t count on elected officials to do what’s right. We have to force them to do what’s right, by taking action ourselves to help create the kind of public pressure that elected officials cannot resist.
That’s what the people at Force Change had in mind when they created their site, a place that informs citizens about environmental policy so that they’ll understand enough about environmental issues to apply intelligent pressure on the government and private organizations to make a real difference. Thanks to the people at Force Change. We’re reading.
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