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Back in 1968 the Stones released Beggars Banquet and the song "Salt of the Earth". For the Brits, who insist on the antiquated, a "billion" is a million million. So in the song, the line "Let's drink to the two thousand million" means two billion. The approximate population of the third rock in 1968 was 3.7 billion
In 40 years, the total has doubled.
I became an environmentalist in 1972, reading Barry Commoner's The Closing Circle (1968). It predicted world-wide starvation in the '80's and was dismissed and ignored: too many fish in the sea.
Ahem.
In 2006, more than 36 million people died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition.
1968 would have been an excellent time to ditch those two insane directives of the most perfidious book ever: go and populate the earth, and have dominion over all its creatures.
We have succeeded at the first such that it will take all four horsemen to rein in our rapacious herd, and a fox in the henhouse would be a far better steward.
For starters, there are too goddam many chriscons, those bastard children of manifest destiny who stole every square foot of this country and continue to deplete and denude every last inch. They rip the tops from the mountains in Appalachia, destroying the entire mountain in the process with the machinery and the wastes piled in the valleys. They drill from the Gulf to the Arctic, and spill, ruining square miles of oceans, killing everydamnthing, and ripping wilderness and irreparable tundra habitat to waste. They bottom drag the oceans for the last fish extant - over 90% of the world's large fish are fucking gone - they shoot whales, which may very well be smarter than we, with cannon, and set fire to the last remaining sea turtles to "clean up" a well still spewing. They kill our wild horses while "managing" them, then turn a blind eye while the auction buyers haul our wild horses, our wild heritage, off to meat slaughterhouses in Canada & Mexico.

It's your turn. Pick a cause, and fight back.

The population explosion must be smothered. Legislation has continued to fail the chriscon, even as judges were named to Federal benches for eight years solely on their professed christian conservative leanings, while abortion laws in this country soldier on with the approval of 70% of the populace. That hasn't stopped countless frivolous lawsuits attacking every phrase of the Roe v. Wade decision, costing millions.
But terrorists have done far more to limit free access to abortions, as guaranteed by Roe. Harassing and haranguing seekers, bombing clinics, killing doctors.
There are 3 (three) abortion providers listed in the Indianapolis yellow pages. The city is a whole damn county, 403 square miles, with a population larger than six states. And 3 abortion providers in the yellow pages. Maybe they're all on bus routes, so the poorest can have access to the degradation and scorn heaped on them by sanctimonious cocksuckers while they try to rectify one very bad mistake. Think it's an easy decision? For anybody?
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What about the PreCambrian notions of the Roman Catholic Church in regards birth control? A blight on the ass of the poor world, yet Haitian Catholics who survived flocked the churches the Sunday after what would have been the most destructive earthquakes in history, if fucking Haiti had anything to destroy.
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Suggestion: fire-bomb a Catholic church, preferably full, or you're only doing half the job.
C'mon, you are damn smart, or you wouldn't be reading this.
Hell, hand out condoms on high school & college campuses, downtown at bars, in poor neighborhoods. Huge impact. Take along a kielbasa to demonstrate. A finger leads to tragic conclusions.
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Several groups are trying to rein in big coal. They can use your help. Don't get carried away and go to Appalachia. You'll be carried home. This is not a joke. They eat their dead children.
Still, you can help.
The Exxon Valdez oil spill isn't even among the top 50 largest oil spills, was only 54th when it occurred, but was the most environmentally devastating until BP did it better.
This crap has got to stop. Oil companies receive government subsidies, as in your tax dollars, and log record profits quarter after quarter, while everyone worries about starving Mexicans working jobs no one else will take anyway.
Want cheap beef, chicken? How about you get rid of all the illegals in the slaughterhouses, people who lose fucking body parts and don't report the accidents, don't even miss work, for fear of being fired, and replace them with unionized meatpackers? How about $12.50 a pound for hamburger, $11 for chicken parts?
You can help.
Boycott BP, boycott Exxon - if you buy either, you're going to hell. Google, our best friend, can put you in touch with groups that will pressure the oil-owned Congress to rein in the runaway profits of these parasitic bastards.
Tough nut to crack, Big Oil, but it starts with you.
Whaling and fishing are almost impossible to regulate in International waters. Try Pew Trust for fishing guidelines, and the more stalwart will want to join Greenpeace, or surely support them.
When I was a kid, the Elwood A&P had fish sticks and canned salmon. Today, Marsh, Meijer, even Wal-Mart, has "fresh" fillets of whatever's left, which ain't much. BP just shut down Gulf shrimp and oysters, and I strongly suggest you learn to do without both, or be very, very disappointed. Southeast Asian shellfish doesn't make good garbage.
What else can you do? Develop a taste for farm-raised catfish. Mild, tasty, and easily prepared, every one's fish for the future.
There are sizable numbers of chriscons trying to pass legislation to reopen horse slaughterhouses in several states, after it took years to get them closed. Here's the story on the last three: one was in operation for over two years in Illinois after it was voted out by the people and the legislature and signed out by the governor, only to be kept open through stays issued by idiot fucking Republican-appointed judges. What the hell kind of system is that? One fucking guy thwarting the will of the entire state?
The other two were in the Lame State of Texas, which enacted state law banning horse slaughter in 1949, but it took Attorney General John Cornyn to enforce it in 2002. Another five years of idiot judicial decisions kept the charnel houses open, until the court of appeals finally upheld the by-then nearly 60-year-old law.
WTF?
You can help. The uber-nutcase Dan Burton is actually on target on this issue. Contact him, and the White House, about the the totally inept Bureau of Land Management and their abominable track record in caring for our wild horses. A recent stay on the Nevada roundup was lifted, and four wild mustangs died the first day. (The reason is the horses are "hazed", stampeded for up to 20 miles with helicopters, across arid wilderness terrain, to round-up pens for sorting and winnowing. Many too many just don't make it.) Do not entertain arguments about whether wild horses are "native". The very first horse, eohippus (eo meaning first, hippus meaning horse), is found only in the North American fossil record.
You can help.
Admittedly, this is weighted towards the horses, as I've been active with this issue for ten years. The BLM is so far a brick. But I'm working on it.
And you: pick one, or find another.
Do something.