we need to role model sustainable living
as best we can and the reason why that's
important is partly because we learn
about them the macro through our
experience of doing it in the micro
that's partly because it brings
integrity to everything we do and it's
partly because you know by role modeling
we can we spiral things out we influence
other people none of us are perfect it's
not about beating ourselves up but it's
not about letting ourselves off the hook
either apart from how we live ourselves
it's about how we influence and this is
where you really have can affect your
changes to ask well you know what are
all the situations in which I can have
influence over the whole system to get
the system change I won and of course it
starts with how I vote but it's also how
I influence my politicians the media I
support where I put my money what about
schools what about how I go to work what
about the company I work for all of that
we've had decades of asking nicely and
it's time to insist and we need to
insist that our politicians take the
stuff seriously we need to insist that
they're there that that their policies
are coherent I think this needs to be
really clever intelligent protesting
somehow you know it's not been enough
just to ask and we do need the change