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slowfoxIt's pouring.
So I walked in this morning, with Radio 4's Americana on the Shuffle.
This week's cast had three topics - Al Franken joining the US Senate, Mountain Top Removal Mining in West Virginia and how the CIA's morale's bearing up In These Times.
The Mountain Top Removal Mining thing is something I've read about on and off for a while, now. It stuns me that people can think that there are two sides to the issue: permanent destruction of nature to mine a non-renewable* resource to maintain unsustainable levels of consumption versus... erm, money.
* well, technically coal, gas and oil are renewable - just not on any kind of timescale that's of use to us humans...
So I walked in this morning, with Radio 4's Americana on the Shuffle.
This week's cast had three topics - Al Franken joining the US Senate, Mountain Top Removal Mining in West Virginia and how the CIA's morale's bearing up In These Times.
The Mountain Top Removal Mining thing is something I've read about on and off for a while, now. It stuns me that people can think that there are two sides to the issue: permanent destruction of nature to mine a non-renewable* resource to maintain unsustainable levels of consumption versus... erm, money.
* well, technically coal, gas and oil are renewable - just not on any kind of timescale that's of use to us humans...
