Consumer or Eco-friendly Citizen?

Robert Reich’s ‘Divided Mind’

Robert Reich was the guest on NPR’s With That Said a couple of days ago. The occasion was the discharge of his new book, ‘Supercapitalism’. His point, concerning the divided mind from the consumer and citizen really caught attention. Many of us are a couple, based on him. Someone subject to capitalism, along with a citizen in the service of democracy. The customer has had over, and also the citizen is not doing its job. We have to reevaluate our priorities and focus on strengthening our democracy.

The difficulties to be a great eco-friendly citizen

This complete business of consumer versus citizen requires a special significance in the present ecological fight. Robert Reich made the next argument, that we had also made earlier within my blog. You might be prepared to take all of the steps to become good eco-friendly citizen, but how can you tell that you’re not likely to be only one among a little minority? By which situation, you risk making each one of these sacrifices for free. Even without the a federated effort among citizens, that allows you to know that we’re all inside it together, nothing will change, you have little incentive to do this.

The strength of eco-friendly systems

Not very lengthy ago, I authored a publish about the strength of small functions and individual action. I even known as Rosa Parks towards the save. I had been attempting to convince myself that whatever I actually do, regardless of how small, is important. Robert Reich known as my bluff. The actual the fact is, I’m a consumer first, then one will have to occur in the collective level, to ensure that the eco-friendly citizen within me to spring into real action. Maybe all of the eco-friendly social systems take presctiption to something, in the end?