Thread by @Kathy_Bramley

@GeorgeMonbiot How do we get 'political mobilisation...addressing these vast issues: demanding structural and systemic solutions to structural and systemic problems.' - it's vitally important, otherwise this is just sounding off &yet devolving any responsibility for what kind of revolution, eh?

@GeorgeMonbiot So - plastic and Carbon emissions are linked by the power issues, the industries are the same: petrochemicals is fossil fuels and vice versa (I knew that really, somewhere!) so they aren't entirely seperate pots of environmental responsibility/guilt as I said last night, (thread)

@GeorgeMonbiot ...trying to compassionately quash the idea that a bit of plastic nullified any energy consumption reduction efforts.
I still don't think it does, exactly.

Sometimes political mobilisation has come from glossier sanitised, generalised beginnings.

@GeorgeMonbiot Even activists can be radicalised via easy-ins: our interests have gateway drugs! Don't they!?
That's how I became interested in environmental politics, I think!

It was fostered. And otherwise activist family etc showed the way. But BBC wildlife programming was a part of it.

@GeorgeMonbiot I did have books for young environmental activists, and battle for the planet - a C4 programme I didn't watch.

Teachers were ecofeminist. Anita Roddick, FoE, Greenpeace, WWF were superstarry. And some stuff was mentioned in our Geography textbooks.

@GeorgeMonbiot And then there was also Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan, Terry Nutkins (and all the other presenters) - on Really Wild!! They've helped bring up the generation that care now!! The rest of the adults and power structures could have cared sooner, faster, harder, ...properly!?

@GeorgeMonbiot Or maybe the best introductions are meaningful gut-punches!?

But they'd have to be targeted the right way. I've spent my life caught between tilting and windmills and trying to be normal - a bit like Chris. We've all been let down.

@GeorgeMonbiot But we know how powerful both the norm and the unusual approach can be.

I think mechanisms must involve all of the above and more but preferably not eco-feudalism by any means!

@GeorgeMonbiot All the potential mechanisms also have associated risks and opportunities, strengths and weaknesses: BSish as it sounds! If we don't think more carefully about mechanisms & aloud within all corners of public & popular discourse, well, it's a risk. It's possibly just sounding off.

@GeorgeMonbiot @threadreaderapp Unroll, please!

@GeorgeMonbiot Copy/paste, expansion&edit error: missed some of my outline of familiar suggestions of mechanisms, like boycotting, lobbying, or useage reduction (same thing as boycotting potentially), voting, powergrabs or uniquely purposeful revolution, and key questions like who vs who & how?

@GeorgeMonbiot We have been let down and let down others over time and across the world. This is a global issue that takes cooperation. I'm not totally defending the BBC but maybe we need to build on certain vibes? Complex interaction: butterflies drink turtle tears!? There isn't a lot of time.

@GeorgeMonbiot Activist revolution isn't altogether proletarian. And the multi-Smaugs's crash and burn certainly isn't. The grassroots are powerful against storms - they share the massiveness of the soil/dunes and reach for what feels safe enough & good enough. But they're floating voters too.

@GeorgeMonbiot *the turtle was the BBC (and Est. and capital interests), by mental association will a tweet I saw earlier on Sunday, a video of butterflies on turtles in the Amazon and somewhere between "One Foot In The Grave" titles imagery and Attenborough now/him in the Galapagos. Dodgy!?😕