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A dear friend of mine (Mike Roselle, who started Earth!First, and is leading the charge against MTR) said, "Understandable, but we don't stop bailing until the ship sinks." Of course, he also believes the major environmental groups are at best hugging the wrong tree.
If i didn't have dear young friends, and dear friends with chillens and grandchillens, i probably would sit around playing music, taking visionary excursions, and chuckling at the evil blindness at the heart of "civilization."
But i won't, even though i see the total environmental condition as far too far over the border to save.
"no, non-violent activism is not an unstoppable force, however much you quote Gandhi" --afew
let's discuss whether there are viable alternatives then, or did i misunderstand you? "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
non-violent activism is not an unstoppable force
Subsumed into that was the idea (that I share), almost a sine qua non in environmental circles, that violence is improductive and doomed to failure. So I was not hinting that violence was the only thing left. I was making a comment on what I see as the overestimation of the strength of non-violent activism. People chaining themselves to trees or railway lines only slow the pace of application of anti-environmental policies. And, much as I admire the Arctic oil-platform invaders, the oil started flowing last week.
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