2/26/2005
First Thoughts on ANWR
I'm going to devote some of the space where I'd be talking about the latest gossip on the Bush Twins to ANWR.
I've dug up some relevant facts and figures that led me to a startling hypothesis: this is really once again about Cheney/Rove/Norquist's vision of achieving long term domination of the Republican party. Or to put it in more basic terms: this is about the conservative dream of killing off the 1960's.
This is a discussion that will take some time and space, however. Better perhaps to start with my own reasons for fighting this fight.
As I get older I see more and more that life is not about me. Happiness is found in serving some greater good. In this aim there are no small actions. Take for instance the photographs of Subhankar Banerjee, who took the shot you see above. As a physicist at Los Alamos he probably had a pretty comfortable life. Yet something moved him to photograph the ANWR region. What exactly? Who can say. But it's a fair guess that it was something about participating in the greater good.
After reading Leah's post at corrente, I went through the World Without Borders site, and something just hit me in the gut. If there's something still sacred in the world right now, you can see it in the image of what Bush calls Area 1002.
file under: anwr.
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