permaculture

[Fiona Campbell <pacedge@magna.com.au>]

On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 04:07  AM, John Schinnerer wrote:
> Aloha,
> > Interestingly though, in Australia, there has been a veritable sea 
> > change in
> > attitude about roadside rubbish ovr the last 30 years.
>
> How much of this is some people cleaning up other people's trash and 
> how much
> is people starting to take responsibility for not creating their own?

It is both. You will never get all people to take responsibility. 
That's why you have fines for litterers, as we do in Australia, to 
compensate for their non-cooperation.

Thanks to government advertising campaigns and the attitudinal 
seachange referred to above, there is a social stigma attached to 
littering. This is a good use of 'naming' - the popular use of 
disparaging terms to describe people who engage in such anti-scoial 
behaviour.

...Russ Grayson