Environmental Movement and the Civil Rights Movement
As the movements are obviously fighting for very different subjects, the parallels are easy to see. Saving money movement has powerful champions, such as Al Gore, Agnes Denes and Amy Balkin. Some of the most extraordinary people who have ever existed fought for civil rights, like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Neither movement has simply sprung from the ground, but instead were a culmination of centuries of labor, of abolitionists for example W.E.B. Dubois or conservationists such as Henry David Thoreau.
So what can we take away from the proven fact that the movements are similar? One is that we need fighters (you are able to give them a call artists, if you want) with bold ideas. African Americans waited long enough for Whites at hand them their rights before bold people increased home plate with bold ideas. Boycotts, sit-ins, marches, along with other creatively organized resistance delivered justice to Blacks in America in the end.
Their efforts succeeded in convincing government to determine their perspective. Black leaders didn't end racism, though. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated before he saw his vision of the world. The American Government did not end racism. It wasn't until today's era, the 21st century, that race issues have recently began to fade. Why now?
It started with an idea. A genius government official took a doll of white girl along with a doll of a black girl and asked little black girls, "Which is much better?" Once the girls find the white dolls, the planet was moved. Segregation in schools was ended. A new era of school reform slowly took place. Each year since, the idea of tolerance has been more engrained within the mind of each and every student in the usa. Our generation in New York has already established this idea (correctly) brainwashed into us: we are all equal. It makes sense a society with less racism as more generations are born.
People become hard occur their ways with age. During youth that ideas and preferences for a lifetime are fixed. Saving money movement needs to understand this. Changing the minds of adults is extremely hard, although necessary. Teaching kids if the most effective arrange for the way forward for the movement.
From elementary school, kids need to learn how plants grow. There must be community or school gardens where children can experience this act of Creation by themselves. They should learn the taste that belongs to them fresh fruits and vegetables.
They must be taught in easy lessons how, with one of these gifts, an obligation is offered for them to deal with our planet. We are able to help them learn to be disgusted by the concept of pollution. Their world is going to be cleaner than we are able to imagine and they wouldn't even know how anyone could live another way. Can you emphasize with a slave owner, or realise why people would discriminate against a soft-spoken, well dressed black man? The concept is absurd.
This is my art project. It is in our schools that change must come. In the end adults should do good to guide an example, it will be for free if we don't start, today, teaching children how you can love the planet, and the way to love the odor of growing life on the spring morning.
