Agir rend heureux
Exerpt from Agir from heureux, an article in the frame of the 10:10 campaign:
“Inventing a world with less carbon? That would be a world in which we would give more importance to solidarity, to generosity, to citizenship, to nature, to common sense, and less to individualism, to superficiality, and to waste…
But how can we achieve this? The task may seem overwhelming and discouraging, as we feel tiny and powerless in front of all that shocks us and revolts us, all that we would like to change… It’s sometimes easier to let someone act instead of us.
However, to give a little bit of our time and of our energy or our money to a collective cause is gratifying, and creates happiness. Acting for others, it’s also acting for oneself. And when it is environmental urgency that leads us to act, the feeling that we are doing it for our children, our grand-children and our great grand-children is another motivation.
[...] There are plenty of situations every day in which we can say what we think, and in which case, if everybody is doing it, things can start to change [...] To say what we think, is to affirm our values, and it is to show to others who hesitate that they will not be the only ones to act.“
http://www.goodplanet.info/eng/Zones/Agir/Bonnes-Pratiques/10-10-Agir-rend-he..."
