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@mjfanatic777 said:
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how are you doing ✨ KWEEN ✨
I bet you are still ✨ slaying ✨

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slay all day little green bug. ✨slay ✨
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I’m doing this:

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"As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love."

Pico Iyer
 
@mjfanatic777 said:
I feel like I know her name but yet at the same time I don't know who she is
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Greta Thunberg is a famous global climate activist, and one of the youngest ones in the world. She's one of today's most influential people. She's also pretty divisive, but her climate activism, in my opinion, makes her truly honorable. She and her family have also been taking a lot of action to reduce their carbon footprint for a very long time (although a lot of climate change is usually caused by massive factory-based corporations and not the individual... But I digress).
 
DJs_Doodles said:
although a lot of climate change is usually caused by massive factory-based corporations and not the individual... But I digress
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Expanding on this as well:

Around 2004, these large companies popularized the term "carbon footprint", as well as a "carbon footprint calculator" to shift the blame for climate change on you (the consumer) rather than the company themselves. It also gave giant oil companies such as BP ( + many other companies) the opportunity to improve their public relations by showing themselves off as "green" by promoting ways to save our planet, even though they are one of the top contributors of climate change in the world (which is a phenomenon known as "greenwashing").

These are some pretty good articles that explains this in detail, so I'll leave it here.

interestingengineering.com

‘Carbon Footprint’ Was Coined by Big Oil to Blame You for Climate Change

Your carbon footprint doesn't actually matter.
interestingengineering.com interestingengineering.com
https://www.greenamerica.org/your-green-life/big-oils-history-greenwashing
www.vox.com

ExxonMobil wants you to feel responsible for climate change so it doesn’t have to

A new study reveals how the oil company used “cutting-edge propaganda” to focus on fossil fuel consumption.
www.vox.com www.vox.com
 
Just finished reading Theodore Dreiser, The Desire Trilogy. And very impressed by such a massive work. It was a great journey into history, social mores, politics, economics, countries, human passions and behavior, love, spiritual values. All this on the example of one man's life. I read Stoick in my youth, but all I remembered was that there was a rich man who cheated on his wife and stopped at nothing to fulfill his desires. And other people suffered for it. And it turned out in the book so many thoughts and emotions, I think long future I will think about what I read ...
Books of a talented author are invaluable.
And the magic is that someone will read this story is not like me and this person will have his own impressions and thoughts from the written.
This of course applies to all talented works.
 
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