Yes, We Need More Extreme Environmentalists

More extreme environmentalists are needed on the right, to bring about the balance that you, I, our whole planet need
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I have this love hate relationship with extreme environmentalists. The freegans, the compacters, the treesitters, the slow food preachers, No Impact Man, the tiny house guy, and the no plastic gal... they all dare me with their tales of almost superhuman feats, and I secretly envy their resolve. That's the hate part. More and more, though, I have come to appreciate what they bring to my not so green party. Somewhere in my brain, their extreme stories are making an impression, and providing a much needed counterpoint to the habitual scripts by which I have been taught to live. It looks like this:

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Bottom line is, more extreme environmentalists are needed on the right, to bring about the balance that you, I, our whole planet need. One hundred years of industrial revolution, to be dealt with, fast. In our brains.

(cross-posted from La Marguerite blog)

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