They way toward a new system starts with changing yourself, then extending to your community... Boycott anything that isn't local or organic, as much as you can, more and more.

If you know better than to buy recycled paper towels because they still require deforestation, still produce carbon, still require transportation via fossil fuels... if you know this and opt instead to just wash with cloth, then you've taken a step in the right direction. Another step is composting. Another step is gardening. Another step is never buying ANYTHING in a disposable container(cook with whole foods, make your own beverages, carry them in glass jars).

Revolutions don't happen all at once, but they can spread very quickly. Revolutions are nothing more than mass changes in public vision... The way to spread the revolution we need is to question everything... Question the idea that "voting with dollars" is the way to save us while the reality exists that every dollar passed along is still, in part, contributing to the military industrial complex... Question the idea that ANYTHING you can buy on a shelf is truly "green" when it's still being manufactured from and distributed by petroleum... Question the idea that this country promotes "liberty and justice for all" when it's mandating by law that children must spend 30 hours a week for 12 years of their life to repeat those words... There isn't much around us which isn't completely mad. Face it all. Break the illusions.

It's not about feeling evil or helpless to change, although society conditions us to react that way when we discover we're doing something wrong. If you feel BAD when presented with new information, realize that it's an opportunity to feel SO MUCH BETTER. Don't feel BAD because Pepsi is poisoning you and raping your mother earth, feel GOOD that you're now aware so you can save yourself and your land base from any further abuse caused on YOUR behalf. (Note: I drank more than a 2 liter of Mountain Dew on average, every single day up through high school and gave it up in just one day with no regret whatsoever... I also lost 80 pounds in just a few months straight away, but that's not really the point, I just feel much better all around since educating myself.)

Too many times when I point out flaws in the system, I'm met with vicious defense. People don't like to hear that their iPhones are made by slave labor because they don't want to give them up. The only options, internally, are to admit they're doing something wrong or pretend to be ignorant... so they pretend to be ignorant. They often point out that I'm using a computer, which is not a fact that I am oblivious to. I know this computer is wrong. I know it's made with toxic elements and assembled by miserable humans subsisting on a low standard of living while being poisoned by there immediate environment. I know it's wrong... but I can USE it to do something good which I would otherwise be incapable of... I can USE this awful computer to reach people all around the world and share ideas. I can USE this awful computer to educate myself on how to cook or build or grow or identify ANYTHING. I can have conversations with people that I would normally never have the opportunity to speak with and grow ideas I otherwise never would have heard of... You don't have that same benefit with a smart phone... You can access the internet, but you can't communicate effectively in a philosophical/ideological sense when you're typing with your thumbs. (lol omg wtf...) When you put internet media in your pocket it goes from connecting you to a vast world to simply shutting you out of your waking reality, preventing you from meeting people while you stare at your smart rectangle, preventing you from focusing your attention on what you're doing or who you're facing in order to text some shit that really doesn't matter to someone you're probably going to see soon anyway(and then ignore while you fiddle with your rectangle.) Anyway, I'm off on a rant. Ignore this last paragraph or two... or think about it, whatever you like.