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   Adam F. Lawton (adam_cadmon1@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 09:43:17 JST Adam F. Lawton

   Try to explain Free Willy to a kid today. I dare you.

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     Masonic Cowgirl (julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 09:43:16 JST Masonic Cowgirl

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     @Adam_Cadmon1 I kind of feel like there was this big push to get kids to care about the environment in the nineties because it was a "safe" issue to care about, that it wasn't as sensitive as like talking about racism or sexism or capitalism, and then the powers that be quickly backtracked once the environmental movement started getting more radical

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 09:46:44 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @julieofthespirits @Adam_Cadmon1
     YES, this. Or…well, maybe not that the movement became more radical — has been for a long time — so much as that the radical aspects of the movement grew more and more credible as climate change got worse and worse.

     In the 1960s and 70s, environment radicals were weirdo hippies; in the 2020s, environmental radicals are white-collar workers and school-age kids.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 11:14:30 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @dalias @julieofthespirits @Adam_Cadmon1
     Remember “50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth?” And it was all stuff like “snip 6-pack rings.” Different times.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 11:14:31 JST Rich Felker

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     @julieofthespirits @inthehands @Adam_Cadmon1 Imagine trying to run a kids show like Captain Planet today...

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     Masonic Cowgirl (julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 11:14:32 JST Masonic Cowgirl

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     @inthehands @Adam_Cadmon1 yeah, there had been radicalism for a while, you're right, I should've phrased it differently - but in the early nineties they were pushing all this Free Willy Captain Planet shit and in the late nineties the ELF was burning down ski resorts, and all the Free Willy Captain Planet stuff magically went away as quickly as it came