One is a start. Let's go for a billion Something I wrote in Digital Vegan that a few people said made them sit up, was about Greta Thunberg's climate protests

One is a start. Let's go for a billion Something I wrote in Digital Vegan that a few people said made them sit up, was about Greta Thunberg's climate protests encouraging kids to "boycott school". I always thought that was counterproductive, and... well, basically nobody cares (except the odd headmaster or ambitious parent). So I wrote that instead; """ If Greta Thunberg could get a billion young people to switch off their phones for a week then we'd see some action. """ I guess what I meant was, if young people wholeheartedly rejected what is "on offer" symbolically by dumping their smartphones... by sacrificing somethg that mattered to them but really represented the interests of "control, surveillance and capitalism", it would send a powerful message and actually be immensely disruptive. Besides, instead of being harmful to themselves, like skipping classes, it would actually be heathy and good for them. Having done so, it would be hard to reverse, because how would the proagandists and apologists reach them? I guess it has to start with one brave, intelligent child who says, "no thanks".