I meant to write about environmental activism only, but I guess the same applies to many other activism.

I can agree that sometimes some activists might do something controversial. However we should think about the phenomenon which almost seem stigmatising green activists. It feels unfair for the young people, often students.

One of the problem is that, activists or not, we are taught to understand that environment protection is necessary and it is the right thing to do, but somehow it seems like a transfer of responsibility.

When it is not wrong to teach the youth all the concepts and responsibilities, it is odd that we seem to spend more time in “advocating environment protection among students” instead of advocating environment protection among corporations.

On its own, educating the youth isn’t wrong, but should the youth really be the main audience of environment protection education? Why exactly are we asking students to do projects that achieve little instead of asking those who can make significant differences to do their part?

Are we pretending having done our jobs by spending our time to have the youth to spend their time on the subject?

Or worse, redirecting the fire to the youth and blame them for not doing concrete things.

It is actually a shame that we need the youth cries out for the common good.

Activism is an extension of those with power not doing their part.

And the mentality of condemning activists. Are we so desperate that we have to blame the activists for not being perfect?