Let's motorvate!
"Campaign seeks small steps for a greener Boston" by Beth Daley | Globe Staff, November 05, 2013
Called Greenovate Boston, the six-month-old campaign refuses to use gloomy projections of global warming catastrophe to motivate residents to adopt greener behavior.
Instead, it is using social science, statistics, and, most of all, small steps, to engage people to take a personal stake in creating a more sustainable city.
Even if it is all for the good I am so sick of fear, distortions, and lies being needed to convince me or anyone that this is the right thing to do. Why would all that be necessary? Isn't the rightness self-evident in the action? Why do we need to be propagandized to do the "right" thing?
As the program begins to gain followers, however, a question looms large: Will people keep it up long enough to make a difference?
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As an international treaty and US legislation to lower heat-trapping emissions have stalled, more emphasis is being placed on states, communities, and individuals to help slow climate change....
I'm sorry, folks, but they just lost me with the never-ending agenda-pu$hing.
In addition, many people do not see immediate or tangible benefits to personally combating climate change. The financial rewards are often small, and no one can see the reduction in greenhouse gases....
Boston is taking a page from the psychology books to get people on board....
Do we really need to have our minds manipulated in such deceptive ways to "get on board?"
The multiyear Greenovate campaign is privately funded by the Barr Foundation and the Green Ribbon Commission, a group of business, institutional, and civic leaders working to fight climate change....
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Related: Clean Harbors seeks boost from NASCAR link
Yeah, turns out the Red Sox and NESN have a relationship with NASCAR. That's why you never see controlled-opposition fart-misters protesting the war machine or the car races.
