1 year ago
The Garrett Hardin Society «
A great website devoted to the memory and ideas of Garrett Hardin, a courageous American ecologist who took on controversial issues like immigration and overpopulation. The site’s video library is a must see.
1 year ago
Appalachia Rising «
I am a coal miner’s great, great granddaughter. My grandpap Miller was killed in an Appalachian coal mine - and I am rising — along with Appalachia Rising, a group in Washington, DC today to protest the devastating practice of mountaintop removal coal mining…
Destroy life, property, mountains, streams, families, communities and the planet to obtain a filthy fossil fuel. Burn it for electricity, releasing poisons and driving the climate to the breaking point. Contain the resulting sludge and toxic ash in billion gallon ponds, until they break. Call it clean. Get the President to call it clean. Add alliteration and a multi-million dollar PR campaign. Voila, you have clean coal.
2 years ago
Dark Green Romanticism «
This hard hitting piece argues that environmentalism, originally created by folkish nationalists, has been hijacked and subverted from within by the globalist Left. The article urges genuine ecologists to reject the Left, and instead forge closer ties with folkish groups. Some beautiful photography accompanies the article.
“Tradition and future, spirituality and technology, wisdom and science, mythos and logos have to meet without fighting, destroying each other. That is the difficulty, the art of alchemy. A green paganism has to be conservative avant garde, in some areas conservative, in others revolutionary.”
2 years ago
G.M. monoclonal nightmare «
Genetically Modified Forest Planned for U.S. Southeast: International Paper and MeadWestvaco are planning to transform plantation forests by replacing native pine with genetically engineered eucalyptus. Scary!
2 years ago
Beauty Alone Justifies Conservation «
On human diversity: George Monbiot comes close to saying it, but something stops him.
2 years ago
Whaling Protesters Pioneer Non-lethal Warfare «
The Sea Shepherd arsenal of acoustic, laser, malodorant and line-carrying devices is an impressive one. They seem to be in the process of developing new tactics and techniques for stopping whalers without shooting anyone or threatening lethal force. This is an unexpected new angle on non-lethals; historically they have been used against protesters, but now it seems the protesters are finding their own uses for them.
2 years ago
Pope: True Environmentalists Are Pro-Life «
Humanity “continues to be marked by the dramatic crisis of the global economy and consequently a serious and widespread social instability.” The “deeper causes” of this situation, the Pontiff contended, “are to be found in a current self-centered and materialistic way of thinking which fails to acknowledge the limitations inherent in every creature.” This same way of thinking, Benedict XVI proposed, also endangers creation.
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