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- From: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk (Michael!)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: A new outlook on activism.
- Message-ID: <7089@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 14:44:01 GMT
- References: <168C41048A.DRPORTER@SUVM.SYR.EDU>
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- In article <168C41048A.DRPORTER@SUVM.SYR.EDU>, DRPORTER@SUVM.SYR.EDU (Brad Porter) writes:
- |> The way I see it, is the problems with activist groups such as Greenpeace and
- |> others is there approach. The environmental awareness that came about during t
- *****
- at least we can spell!
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- |> he 90's has created a much more educated population who realizes that strong
- |> activism is not the solution to every problem. We now have educated politician
- |> s who are cognicent of the fact that the voters want environmentally sound legi
- |> slation, and are attepting to enact this type of legislation. Whereas in the p
- |> ast, the only way to get publicity about environmental issues was to do
- |> something drastic, now it is much more common to find publicity about scientifi
- |> c developments in the area of improving the environment. The activist groups
- |> are looking less and less like saviors and more and more like closed-minded
- |> terrorists. The scientific community has viewed them this way for decades, but
- |> finally the public is starting to realize this. Greenpeace and others would do
- |> much better to work within the structure of the government and avoid the negati
- |> ve publicity that they are receiving.
- |> -Brad Porter
- |> DRPORTER@SUVM
- |>
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- oh dear oh dear. do you think all that Greenpeace, FoE etc do is just big
- publicity stunts? wake up - they *are* working with (or maybe even lobbying)
- governments. FoE, for example, are trying to dispel the MYTH that they are all
- hippy radicals - FoE now ask all their local groups to be smart and have started
- doing standard letterheads and group banners which they encourage the local
- groups to use (kinda like corporate image).
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- Michael
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