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Originally Posted by Rochard
Nothing changes.
When I was a kid in high school, a lot of my friends were into protesting and trying to make change happen. They wanted to save the world, save the whales, save the dolphins, and most importantly stop research on nuclear activity. I didn't take part myself because frankly at the time I could have cared less about dolphins or whales. Nearly thirty years later it seems to me we still have whales, still have dolphins; We still have nuclear bombs and research and the world is still here. I'm glad I didn't waste my time.
The occupy movement was the worst. Obviously we shouldn't punish those who have worked forty years plus and climbed to the top of their chosen job field. If we failed to reward people with financial gain, we wouldn't have one tenth of what we have now. Without financial gain we would be all communists, and clearly that hasn't worked out too well.
Protest all you want. With the exception of civil rights and more rights for women, nothing really has changed.
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You really can't be this oblivious to the world around you can you?
Those protest about Dolphins that went on when you were in High School, was because of a very well circulated video where it was shown to the world that fishermen were routinely killing Dolphins in mass by hacking them to pieces or beating them with clubs and tossing them back in the water while catching various fish, mostly tuna..
Those protest that you seem to think did nothing because "we still have Dolphins".. are the reason when you look at a can of tuna, it now says "Dolphin Safe". Why is that? Because those silly kids whom protested. forced the big fishing companies to create better fishing standards which avoided needless killing of other fish like umm those Dolphin that we still seem to have in our oceans..
Those save the whale protest which you think were silly and meaningless also had the affect of getting "most" countries to outright ban the hunting of endangered whales.. It's only a handful of countries mainly Japan whom still hold out as well as many native populations around the world. Large scale whale hunting no longer happens though other than as I mentioned Japan.. So yes those protest which you think did nothing actually changed things which you seem very unaware of.
Also your location says "NORCAL" I bet you just assume because there are still Redwood trees in your state it's just because they are still growing.. Not that umm yea there were silly protesters and tree-huggers that fought against the logging companies whom were trying to cut every last one down..