short-[sighted,circuit,cut]
Every biologist who goes into the wilderness today is, or will be, in my shoes. We all ask ourselves: What do you do when the Corporation comes to town? The Corporation’s goal is the rapid extraction of energy. It’s like shorting a battery, selling the magnificent spark and leaving behind a dead, useless battery. It goes from ecosystem to ecosystem, sucks out the spark and then moves on, leaving behind a deflated, dismantled, dysfunctional once-living system.
-- Alexandra Morton, The Spark
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Not to mention the audio pollution, eh? My head is so stuffed today that everything is quiet anyway . . .
-- Jenita (March 12, 2007 3:07 AM)
My headspace is clogged too.
On my drive (<sigh>) through inner-belt congestion this morning over the crooked river, lined with its quarries and factories, I thought again of this image of the spark... and then another image of what things might've looked like before it, and a similar image of what it could look like after it.
-- jeffschuler (March 12, 2007 5:00 AM)