I tried to put my finger on it, but I gave it my whole arm...

I've been really quite sick of people calling me out on my lifestyle not fully supporting my beliefs.

The fact of the matter is that everyone makes compromises. Next, there is NO escape from this insane culture. You can NOT live outside of it, untouched. It has manifested every corner and crevasse.

Most importantly, it doesn't matter. I can personally live as sustainable as possible on some piece of land and it wouldn't do a thing besides make me feel better about myself.

Let me clarify, though. Lifestyle decisions are important to me. They help me act on my beliefs. They help me prepare to act on things that might actually make a change. They keep me sane. They help me connect more with being an animal on this earth. This is all important, but as a tactic for radical, or any, change, it's hardly even a factor. The only time sustainable lifestyles become absolutely crucial, is AFTER the change.

My point is, no matter how much I change my lifestyle to live how I believe is right, there's still going to be the elite taking advantage of the rest of the world. There's still going to be massive deforestation, extinction, and overpopulation. There's still going to be man-made climate change and toxic amounts of pollution. There's still going to be dioxin in mother's breast milk. We'll still be missing 90% of large water fish. The world will continue to be milked for all it's worth until it's a desert wasteland.

The most important thing to do, is stop them. Stop the machines and stop the people using the machines. More so, stop the people ordering the usage of the machines.

The only thing that is going to matter to future generations, and to the natural world, is if we stopped ourselves. If we do anything less than completely stop, we fail.

Stop beating around the bush. Stop pushing it away. It must be stopped, for the sake of life itself.

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Only in the matter of giving it my all, can I be called a hypocrite. But I sure as hell know what I need to be doing, and I live in regret every day I'm not doing it.