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200. Lifelines VS Deadlines: The Need For Science Based Policy (Part One)

Outrage + Optimism

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Channeling Anger Into Action

I believe that mold grows in dark places and I believe that when we expose these things to the light of day many people do become legitimately angry. They don't like this and they want it to change and I think that's how social change begins to happen. Consumer boycotts of sugar played a significant role in raising people's consciousness about how ordinary people were benefiting from slavery just by putting sugar in their tea Sugar had been harvested by slaves in the Caribbean. We are complicit until we start to do something about it, maybe it might involve consumer boycotts but still we do have powers consumers we have powers citizens.

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