We’re the Generation of Change!

If we are said to seek the unattainable let it be known that we do so to avoid the unimaginable.
(Students for a Democratic Society, Port Huron Statement, 1962)

My aim is to agitate and disturb people.
I’m not selling bread, I’m selling yesast.
(Miguel de Unamuno)

But there is Environmental Injustice . . .
The globe is warming, the ozone hole is growing, cancer rates are skyrocketing, new chemicals of unknown toxicity are being invented monthly, sheep are being cloned, our food is genetically engineered, our topsoil is eroding, corporate-driven unsustainable economic growth is demanding greater resource extraction hormones are being added to our milk and animals and plants are experiencing unprecedented rates of extinction as countless ecosystems are destroyed. The gap between rich and poor is growing increasingly obscene. Multi-national corporations, aided by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, wish to draw up a new international order that would give them all the rights (like the ‘right’ to pollute and smash unions) and leave the world’s inhabitants with none. Corporations control our politicians, own the media, and are even taking over our schools. In the name of “justice” and “democracy,” governments wage wars, destroying people and the planet. We live in a time of environmental injustice.

Despite the efforts of the Civil Rights, Women’s, and Queer movements, racism, sexism, and heterosexism still ravage our society. People are oppressed, and ultimately dying, because of their race, gender and sexual orientation. The traditional environmental movement has been slow in recognizing this fact and has too often reflected the priorities of its largely white, middle-class constituency. As a result, the movement has focused much of its energy on problems in the wilderness to the neglect of the city, while both demand our attention. We can do better.