In 1891, Irish author Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) observed, “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” To what extent do you agree or disagree?
I agree fully because changes are made with
people who are disobedient in others' opinions/choices. Sometimes rebellion is the only way people will listen as seen through protests over decades.
Current Event: Biden approved for the Alaskan oil development that will be happening in 2027. People don't support this and have been causing protests outside the white house. 70 million tons of oil will be exposed to Alaska's North Slope. This is going to affect animals and can even kill them. For example polar bears and orcas.
People argue, they want to save all those animals they are already in danger because of climate change plus this can really kill them.
One example is that people have been standing outside the white house protesting and having big signs against the Willow Project. They gather environmental groups to stop. This has also been all over social media specially tiktok. Young activists are trying to spread awareness on how this will affect animals.
people are rebelling because they know that climate chnage is already kiling animals in the north pole.
The Willow project is a $8 billion plan to extract 600 million barrels of oil from federal land in Alaska.
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