Tag: Environment
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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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My advice to graduates
No one’s asked me to speak at graduation, but I’ve prepared a message for seniors anyway. The theme? The values you’ve been taught—get real. Nobody practices that stuff anyway.
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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 