Murduring Mother Earth -- One Forest, One Species, And One Atom At A Time (Jason Miller)

[Tace]

Jason Miller -- World News Trust

I am the earth. You are the earth. The Earth is dying. You and I are murderers. --Ymber Delecto

What a sorry lot we humans are, particularly those of us immersed in the “American Way of Life.” Killing is indeed our business. And business has never been better.

According to the World Resources Institute, four species go extinct every hour “due to tropical deforestation alone.”

More than half the tropical rainforests are gone and at the rate we’re going, we will have reduced chopped, hacked, sawed, dozed, and burned our way to the virtual eradication of the “lungs of the planet” by the year 2030.

Kids, get ready to start suffocating because we’re NOT giving up our meat habit! Patrick Henry was prepared to die for liberty, but we have a nobler agenda: Give us more grazing land or give us death!

Reflecting the spiritually perverse beings we are here in America (don’t be fooled by our carefully polished veneer of civility and humanity -- we’re the most savage murderers of all) is the fact that we are considering replacing our “commander-in-chief,” (the most heinous war criminal since Hitler) with a senile war-mongering septuagenarian and his recently anointed reactionary sidekick who never met a non-human animal she wouldn’t slaughter or an ecosystem she wouldn’t decimate in the name of “hunting,” “free enterprise,” or “resource acquisition.”

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http://www.worldnewstrust.com/wnt-reports/commentary/murduring-mother-earth-one-forest-one-species-and-one-atom-at-a-time-jason-miller.html

[tom_paine]

1. I think he lost his thread of thought a little at the end, but the first 2/3rds of the article are

excellent.

[SCBeeland]

2. This Miller sounds like a loon

I like technology and our comfortable way of life, and so do most human beings. I always hear complaining like this, but never attempts to buy land for the sole purpose of planting a huge forest, or for building wildlife sanctuaries. That's what concerned people will have to do if they care enough about forests or wild animals, because we're not going to revert to living as cavemen.

[GliderGuider]

4. Here you go

I always hear complaining like this, but never attempts to buy land for the sole purpose of planting a huge forest, or for building wildlife sanctuaries.

Eco–Touring Pumalin Park in Chilean Patagonia

In 1991, Douglas Tompkins, the American founder of the highly successful clothing companies Esprit and North Face, swooped into southern Chile and bought up large tracts of virgin land containing an incredible nature geography of lakes, rivers, hot springs, mountains, volcanoes and coastal fjords.

In the intervening decade and a half, Tompkins has spent more than $25 million to buy up his slice of paradise, draft plans, hire park rangers, build trails and otherwise organize what is today known as "Pumalin Park." Says Tompkins: "The gratifying rewards for our work are in the compliments we receive by the thousands who appreciate our love and care of Chile as they see our efforts translated onto the landscapes. Our guest book in Caleta Gonzalo (Pumalin headquarters) says it all."

Spread over 740,000 acres, Pumalin is considered to be the largest privately owned nature preserve in the world. If you're the type that gets inspired and thrilled by nature at is most pure, most awesome rawness, this is one of those special places in the world that is worth a pilgrimage.

Enjoy...

[Nihil]

5. This SCBeeland sounds like a troll.

"I always hear complaining like this"

"That's what concerned people will have to do if they care enough"

"we're not going to revert to living as cavemen"

Yawn. :eyes:

[stuntcat]

3. TY

I have such strong feelings about this, but I won't talk about feelings in the group anymore.

Anyway TY for the article, I'm printing this stuff out and posting it around the house for when my in-laws come over pressuring me to get pregnant. (oh shit, have I stepped over someone's boundary there? sorry fellas!)