This is what I am talking about. From the environmental anthropology listserv.


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>This is the best I've read so far. . . We clearly need to be sharing
>thoughts- strategies- ideas--- supporting each other-- gathering around
>tables articulating new ideas-speaking the trust, ensuring that democratic
>dialogue is practices more now than ever! Speak!!
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>Where do we go from here?
>In light of the election debacle, and in consideration of our looming
>environmental crises, environmentalism may be in need of a renaissance of
>resistance. OrionOnline, in conjunction with Grist Magazine, asked some
>Orion writers and others the question that's on all our minds. Their
>responses were fierce...and contagious.
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>Richard Nelson
>When politicians work to deplete the forests and farmlands -- speak. When
>they threaten the air and waters -- speak. When they undermine the wellbeing
>of our neighborhoods -- speak. When they disregard the rights of humankind
>-- speak. When they disparage the principles of freedom and democracy --
>speak. When they ignore the responsibilities that accompany inordinate power
>-- speak. When they imperil the possibilities for peace -- speak. And above
>all, when they demand silence -- speak. Never more than now, the hope and
>promise of America rests on a rising, insuppressible chorus of voices --
>whispering, shouting, proclaiming, protesting, advocating, resisting,
>singing, supporting, celebrating...and persevering. Speak!
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>Peter Matthiessen
>Environmentalists must not lose momentum or slacken our efforts even for a
>day in this desperate fight to defend our American land and life from four
>more years of reckless exploitation by the Bush administration and its
>corporate directors. We must all join forces to attract support,
>politically, financially, and in the media. Unceasing exposure and
>inevitable public outrage may inspire strong campaign finance reform and
>persuade a president no longer seeking reelection to brighten the most
>disgraceful environmental record in living memory by clearing the stink of
>fossil fuel, of Enron and Halliburton, from our sadly soiled White House; by
>putting a stop to irresponsible deregulation and removal of environmental
>protections in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Tongass National
>Forest, the Rocky Mountain Front and elsewhere; by supporting a minimum
>40-mpg fuel standard; and by urging congressional commitment to clean
>renewable energies, thereby working to preserve at least a semblance of
>America the Beautiful for our innocent inheritors.
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>Alison Hawthorne Deming
>Hope lies in the local thinking and practice that cannot be thwarted by the
>lying, bullying, exploitation and greed that pass for "public" policy under
>the Bush/Cheney leadership. In the grievous outcome of this election, we
>need to focus activist energy on the small good deed that can impact local
>environmental health and social justice. Now is not the time to quench the
>activist fires. Make noise, make poems, make news. As W. H. Auden wrote,
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>To serve as paradigm
>  Now of what a plausible Future might be
>  Is what we're here for.
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>Scott Russell Sanders
>We need to resist attacks on air, soil, water, and wild lands. But we also
>need to change our culture, not just our leaders and technology. We need to
>speak out and act for more conserving, more sustainable, more peaceful, and
>more just practices in our homes, our workplaces, our schools, and our
>public assemblies. We must refuse to shut up, refuse to give up, in the face
>of corporate consumerism and a mass culture peddling the narcotics of
>entertainment. We need to articulate and demonstrate a more decent and
>joyous way of life.
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>Rick Bass
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>No surrender -- no giving up. Prepare strategically for 2008 in university
>towns and address the youth vote. Begin priming first year college students
>for Election 2006 and 2008. Push for all of the things we would have asked
>-- and expected -- of Kerry.
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>Moving to Canada is not an option. The homeland needs defending.
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>Bill McKibben
>There is nothing but discouragement in these results -- it will be hard as
>hell to save ANWR with the new Senate, and essentially impossible to get
>anything significant passed regarding climate change (or probably anything
>else). More than ever we'll be playing defense at the national level and
>trying to get real things done at the state level, at least in that fringe
>of states tinted blue on last night's TV screens. But make no mistake --
>last night guarantees America won't re-enter the world conversation on
>environmental issues for years to come.
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>Terry Tempest Williams
>Everyone should watch Eminem's video, Mosh, and put on green sweatshirts as
>we stand our ground and remain ever vigilant and engaged.
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>James Howard Kunstler
>The salient issue for Americans is how we are going to remain civilized when
>the permanent global energy crisis is upon us. This epochal event will
>compel us to downscale, downsize, and re-think virtually all our daily
>activities. No combination of alternative fuels will rescue us, or permit us
>to keep running our nation the way we are running it now. Most of all, it
>will require us to live locally -- and intensively so. The great crisis for
>us will come in the issue of food production. As industrial agriculture
>fails, along with suburbia and the industrial mega-cities, we will face a
>tremendously turbulent re-shaping of our living arrangements. Some places --
>Phoenix, Las Vegas -- will fail entirely. Anything big, whether a
>corporation or a government, is liable to become ineffectual.
>Environmentalists must prepare for these very real hardships.
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>David Orr
>First, let's get the name of the thing right. The election of 2004 confirms
>James Madison's worst nightmare: the takeover of all branches of the federal
>government not just by a single party, but by an extreme faction of that
>party.
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>Second, let's be clear about where we are headed. We the people are about to
>get more corruption, more division, more lies, more terrorism, more
>pollution, more breaks for the wealthy, more religious fanaticism, more
>corporate subsidies, more kids left behind, more struggling families, more
>debt piled on the backs of our children, more urban neglect, more nutty
>ideology, and further procrastination on the issue of potentially
>catastrophic climate change looming just ahead.
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>Third, the long-term objectives are clear: restore democracy to the United
>States by eliminating money from politics, reassert public control of the
>airwaves, restore a free, locally owned press, repair the frayed separation
>between church and state, and educate the people once again to be discerning
>citizens. How can we do such things? The same way all great and noble things
>are accomplished -- with patience, courage, energy, certainty, and a mastery
>of the art of strategy. The soft underbelly of the Bush-Cheney-Rove empire
>includes all thoughtful conservatives disturbed by recklessness; all honest
>persons offended by mendacity; and all true Christians sufficiently alert to
>notice the discrepancy between the words and life of the "Prince of Peace"
>and our foreign and domestic policies.
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>And we have no energy for despair!
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>Mark Dowie
>We certainly should not spend our time in lobbying the federal government,
>which, incidentally, I would have said was a waste of time no matter who was
>elected. I have more environmental faith in Teresa Heinz's left foot than
>the whole administration that was almost her husband's. Both our main
>political parties, and all four of their recent candidates, are economic not
>ecologic in their orientation. That's been true since 1972, and was
>particularly true during the Clinton years, when the Vice President, author
>of "Earth in The Balance" and a promising green, became a huge
>disappointment.
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>For the next four years and beyond, I would divide my environmental energy
>roughly in half. Keep your best half inside your watershed, and apply the
>other half outside. Do that with your environmental philanthropy as well.
>The important thing is to be actively engaged. Writing checks is not enough.



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