Tag: environmentalism
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Hellbenders Fighting In My Back Yard
There is a nice article right now in Rolling Stone on a historic and heroic struggle that is happening just a few miles up the road from me. A while back, a big corporation came to a tiny little community and said, “we’re going to dump all our pollution here.” A lot of the good…
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Thanks For The Clearcut, Assholes
I wrote this late last fall, held it back to do some research–so I could write reasonably, not just emotionally–and then held it back some more as we got into the holiday season and I wanted to focus on bright, shiny, happy holiday things. Well, it’s grim and cold and gray outside, and this blog…
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Quotes From The Dark Side: Ronald Reagan
Sometimes the Dark Side and the Dumb Side co-exist in the same space, like alternative universes. “Trees cause more pollution than automobiles.” ~ Ronald Reagan
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Best Damn Quotes: Edward Abbey
“At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “this far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but…
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Best Damn Quotes: Edward Abbey on Stupidity
“One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bonafide stupidity, nothing beats teamwork”. -Ed Abbey *I’ve stopped numbering these. Why bother to keep track?
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