8 CommentsSpent yesterday cooped up in Butler instead of marching the streets of New York? No fear, Bwog is here to bring out the activist in everyone! Fellow student Jo Chiang shares with us some snaps of her experience at the historic march yesterday, where an estimated 300 plus of the 300,000 plus total marchers were Columbia students.
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@Anonymous Obama and Pelosi need to report this and their Roosevelt series as an independent campaign expenditure.
@alum Such a waste of time. The reason for global warming/climate change is everyone’s addiction to themselves, first and foremost. CHARGING YOUR CELL PHONE is bad for the climate. CHECKING FACEBOOK AND COMMENTING ON BWOG instead of having an in person discussion is bad for the climate. The internet requires a ton of fossil fuel to keep running. No amount of marching will change that.
I saw someone, in full regalia, with signs, buttons and sloganeering t-shirt, hailing a cab to attend the march. No public transit. No bicycles. A fossil-fuel-burning TAXICAB.
Only in New York.
@You're either seriously misinformed or an idiot if you think personal consumption is the root of the problem. Jesus Christ.
@Anonymous What do you think the root of the problem is?
@Well... …those people could probably be doing more to reduce their footprint, but the point of this march was to advocate for political, not personal, change. The most effective and fastest way to solve these problems would be with broad policy mandates to reduce carbon emissions, and with industry innovation to provide viable alternatives. People are only going to give up their lifestyle if they have to pay out the ass for harmful behaviors and if there exist alternatives. I would love to live in a world with only green running vehicles, but right now I don’t. I’m not going to never use a car again, but you can bet I’m going to pressure the hell out of the government and industries to make that world possible for me.
@wait, what? If I learned anything at Columbia, it is that personal IS political.
@Sure.. my point is this is a movement about fixing systemic and political problems. Personal choices aren’t made in a vacuum; my options as a consumer are defined by my city and country, which are regulated by my government. So that’s where we should be looking for the most change.
The biggest thing you can do as an individual isn’t to not take taxis, it’s to participate in political and economic movements that eventually mean we have electric taxis.
@Rick Pitino Cold fusion isn’t walking through that door. Windmills ain’t walking through that door…