CLIMATE REVOLUTION
The Revolution is already begun.
The fact of man-made climate change is accepted by most people. Through every walk of life people are changing their values and their behaviour. This continues to build the Revolution. The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.
MOST IMPORTANT MESSAGE
Climate Revolution is the only means towards a sound economy. When the general public massively switches on to this fact we will win.
RESIST ECONOMIC PROPAGANDA
Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth’s treasure and we 
can no longer exploit it cheaply. This shows up as a symptom; the symptom which is the proof of climate change is the economic crisis. Climate crisis and economic crisis are like serpents who eat each other’s tail.
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a wilful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the human and environmental cost. The old, blind, mechanistic and life threatening view of economists prevents a true analysis. If they included climate change in their analysis we could work towards a better future.
If we want a sound economy we have to have a sound environment . What’s good for the planet is good for the economy / What’s bad for the planet is bad for the economy.
PLAN OF OPERATION
1) Assert the connection between the climate crisis and the economic crisis.
2) Implement two measures without which we cannot stop climate change:
i. Establish the Artic Commons
ii. Save the Rainforest
Both of these are possible right now.
3) Tackle the need for clean energy.
4) Curb the Corporations, especially the extractive industries and agribusiness. (We notice a recently coined word, “Corporocracy”.)
5) We shall now form a cabinet of operations – to include NGO’s, businesses and celebrities with access to the social media.
HOW TO JOIN THE REVOLUTION
1) Money is a means to an end, not an end in itself.
2) Quality v Quantity
3) Buy less, choose well, make it last (we don’t want the “latest thing” just for the sake of it.) “I never waste money I spend it”- Oscar Wilde. Maybe you’ll give a donation to an NGO or charity.
4) Prepare and cook your own food.
5) Cut out plastic when possible, for instance making a plastic bottle consumes 50 times the amount of water than it contains.
6) Inform yourselves.
7) NGO’s: there are thousands, follow one in particular and give your support. You will learn a lot.
8) Consider the responsibility of not having or having children.
9) Take an active part in the Revolution as it starts to build.
10) Engage in art and culture (Get off the consumer treadmill; discriminate, don’t suck up.)
Hi,
Can i just ask. Option 5 of the revolution is cut out plastic, does this mean i should or shouldn’t purchase the plastic shoes that you are producing??
I ask this not to be flippant or pedantic but in all seriousness.
Thanks
Ant
The shoes themselves are more sustainable than typical shoes in that they are entirely recyclable and are devoid of animal products. The factory producing the shoes also recycles over 99% of their water and waste unlike the vast majority of manufacturers. Personally I am a huge fan and I try to avoid plastic on a daily basis. Plastic in itself is not inherently bad, it is it’s disposability and absence of longevity in its use that is. Plastic should be respected and not disposed of!
Hi
I’ve started implementing these ideas already, I think the buy less and look for quality needs to notified more to the general public and I’d love to get involved in some action that would help cut wasteful spending. I mean the high street producing hundreds thousands of garments for sale every season and i’d like to find a way to make high street clothing more sustainable to the environment, I’d like to know what happens to the clothes that aren’t sold and make sure all retailers are recycling them or something positive with them that benefits the planet.
Also i’d like to know if there are any resistance events i could get involved in. Because honestly i’d like to adopt children in the future and there would be no point if they had no chance of survival.
Thanks Adam
It’s about time we had a Revolution!
Vive la résistance!
@ Lynds
Thanks i thought that would be the answer but just wanted to check that was the case as i am a huge fan of these shoes, I recycle my clothes by passing anything that I no longer wear onto a friend or a friend of friends in that way anything that I buy has a longer lifespan, I try to buy quality products not prim ark or cheap disposable clothes so much waste and false economy in that, my only condition of giving away clothes is that they are either passed on to someone else or given to oxfam, I think this is a good way of both recycling and ensuring that people buy less.
i have for the last two years barely bought any new clothes, which started out as a financial necessity has gradualy become a concious active way forward. the quality over quantity is certainly true, whilst i am a huge fan of VW i have bought very few things for myself in the last 10 years the odd t-shirt & belt & a pair of pirate wellies to walk the dogs in, lol. however i have a number of items cardigans with velvet trims, some shirts & ties amongst my treasured pieces all bought circa 1997 & i still wear them to this day, everyone always comments on how fab they are to this day. so heres to another 15 years or so of wearing my VW classics. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
i also own a pair of red plastic heels i bought for a friend a couple of christmas’s ago size 7, you can imagine my delight when they didnt fit her so occasionaly i ease my foot in like cinderella… i could not believe my friend didnt snatch them out of my hands whatever the size?????????????? I LOVE ART…it keeps on giving all the time.. something new, a thought, a place a question, im 43 & never was taken to a gallery by school or parent but when a friend took me to manchester city art gallery in the 80′s i never looked back….art is life & its everywhere…
thank you all for your wonderful comments………. your have all inspired me to try harder, spend less on pointless items of clothing which hold no purpose thanks again
xxx
I am so glad that something is finally getting done. I currently work within LUSH and when i found out that you where helping i went mental (ask the managers in the Belfast store). I can’t wait to see the campaign and put up the window display in LUSH Belfast! Finally something may get down right in this world!
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Hi
I was at the Haringey 6th form college panel yesterday, thanks for being there to spread the word. I am an art activist/community developer currently working on a project in Haringey.
Might I recommend connecting with http://www.think-global.org.uk
they are more versed in working with youth, and if that is the audience and demographic you want to ‘buy in’ to your revolution you might find some more appropriate ways of trying to reach them.
Having some more concrete options for what youth could do, apart from going to visit an art gallery, and/or some links to resources of how they could help or start to create change might be more useful, encouraging and interesting to them for your next presentation.
Great work
Sharon
Revolution? Really? As far as I know, Vivienne Westwood is just as bad as any other fashion designer…the only thing is, she talks about climate change a bit more than the others. Big deal! Telling people not to shop whilst creating new collections every season is kind of like telling your kids to stop eating junk food then baking cakes all day