Category: environment
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Politics—who cares?
I tried to quit caring what happens in government. So what if my neighbors suffer under state and federal budget cuts? So what if long after I’m gone the earth becomes unsuitable for human life? I’m past my child-bearing years. So what if women are denied contraception and abortion?
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Politics and Clotheslines
Are liberals more likely than conservatives to dry their clothes on a clothesline?
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Henrik Ibsen, fracking, and jobs
In Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People” we see the folly of a community making a decision based on economic considerations. Today in making moral decisions, such as those related to fracking, we must look at more than the jobs created.
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The role of government in environmental issues
By the late 1930s the logging industry had destroyed the forests of the Southeast. Land that is today Pisgah and Cherokee National Forests is lush with fir-spruce trees because the government bought and reforested the land. We need government regulations.
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The Death of Beauty and the Future of Our Planet
If we do not expose our children to the beauty of nature, they will surely not value our planet and work to preserve it.
Nancy Werking Poling 