Yay! Stereotypes!

I really hate they way that people constantly repeat the lunatic myth that "the environment movement is all white middle class". It's crap. It might be true for that section of the movement that seems to constantly get in the government's and businesses' ears - The Sierra Club, and the Nature Conservancy (I'm not from america, I don't know, and saying that is probably just repeating the same shit I want to refute) - but it's not true for the movement as a whole.. a lot of the "activist" greenies I know, here and in other countries aren't rich, most hardly make the grade for "middle class" in these countries - often living below the poverty line. And pretty much ALL of those activists are at pains to try to include indigenous people, other minorities, other socio-economic classes.

Yeah, we've got a LONG way to go, but we're trying. We know the problems, and spouting the same sterrotyped shit, implying that greens don't care, or aren't aware of the divisions in society doesn't help.

ned

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"This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." - Arthur C. Clarke