“Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.”
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.
Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.
