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| Brickworks lily pond. June 30 2022 |
When I was in the environmental non-government sector, I worked with angry people. When they were at rest, just sitting over coffee, their anger seemed generalized, unspecific. But, give them an environmental cause and they'd have something to focus their anger on.
Anger gave them the passion missing from their quiet lives. Passion gave them conviction. Conviction gave them the endurance to sit through years-long processes or law suits. Sometimes they won.
Almost always, government action was the accelerant for their anger. In the old days it was dams and power projects.
These days vaccine mandates and lockdowns are government's gift to angry people looking for some passion in their otherwise quiet lives.
Karen
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