Individual Responsibility
Why Bother?:
"The Big Problem is nothing more or less than the sum total of
countless little everyday choices, most of them made by us ... and most
of the rest of them made in the name of our needs and desires and
preferences. For us to wait for legislation or technology to solve the
problem of how we’re living our lives suggests we’re not really serious
about changing — something our politicians cannot fail to notice. They
will not move until we do. Indeed, to look to leaders and experts, to
laws and money and grand schemes, to save us from our predicament
represents precisely the sort of thinking — passive, delegated,
dependent for solutions on specialists — that helped get us into this
mess in the first place. It’s hard to believe that the same sort of
thinking could now get us out of it." -- Michael Pollan, New York Times
That's my favorite paragraph in this very long but very good article in the NY Times. It articulates clearly the need take action as an individual, to set an example for others, and to not always look to some so-called leader to do something. Act. Take individual responsibility to lead yourself. Do something. That's the fastest way to make your point.
That's my favorite paragraph in this very long but very good article in the NY Times. It articulates clearly the need take action as an individual, to set an example for others, and to not always look to some so-called leader to do something. Act. Take individual responsibility to lead yourself. Do something. That's the fastest way to make your point.
