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Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Radical Environmentalists

"radical environmentals."
I suppose you mean 'environmentalists.'

A radical environmentalist is one who makes no compromise in defense of Mother Earth, one who understands that without clean air, water, and land, we have nothing. What water would you drink, what air would you breathe, and what land would you till to grow food? Guns and weapons are of no importance to us. We have no desire to be wasting our precious short time on Earth to be engaging in wasteful conflict when we would rather be engaged in meaningful employment, or tending to our gardens. Yet when unarmed we must face oppression that lusts only the for dollars, dollars to buy more useless trinkets and chachkis, both small and large. Your women have closets the size of tiny houses stuffed full of shoes, purses, and clothing that get worn once or twice a year and tossed away like cheap rags because they cannot be seen wearing the same out fit more than that. Men who have their own toy stores with boats, ATVs, motorcycles, jet skis, and every brand new electronic gadget ever made, even though they purchased the previous model a mere 6 months ago. Houses and garages get bigger and bigger in order to keep all this junk, or else to house the latest humongous SUV.

Radical environmentalists care more for the things that are necessary for the survival of Mother Earth. Without us, the planet will die, but I fear that the white mans lust for leisure, power and money may have already doomed the planet. Seas are rising, foul winds blow with increasing velocity and frequency, carrying poisoned air and water from plastic, oil, and industry to every last remote corner of our home, our Earth, the only one we have.

1 comment:

David MySky said...

I wrote this tonight in a comments thread at:

https://www.sayanythingblog.com/entry/social-media-photos-collected-state-show-dakota-access-protesters-weapons/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=SayAnythingBlog.com&utm_content=Social%20Media%20Photos%20Collected%20by%20State%20Show%20Dakota%20Access%20Protesters%20With%20Weapons