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Cleaning Up the Mississippi River
Chad Pregracke grew up spending all his time either in, on or around the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. By the time he was 17, he began to realize the extent of the pollution for a river that provided drinking water for 18 million people. At age 23, he founded an organization that has engaged over 87,000 volunteers and taken 8.4 million pounds of garbage from 22 rivers across the United States. And he hasn't stopped there - his organization gives educational workshops, plants trees, removes invasive species... Find out more about this everyday hero.
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Awareness of the plight of the wildlife and hightlighting what caused the need for this project in the first place.
Wonderful to see such collective action producing far greater results than any one political leader of system ever could (as if they ever could!)
Wonderfully inspiring!
Nevertheless it’s work that deals with the effects, not the causes, of the problem. It’s not addressing the structural causes of who creates all that garbage or who profits by using th river as dumpster, or the underlying narrative by which we understand nature as something separate from us, for example.
I fear that these initiatives, as great as they are, also reproduce the idea that solutions to the pollution problem lie in individual action, not in structural, political changes.