Lughnasa Honey Moon
On a similar track to the post below, though in a different direction, all those mining proposals have begun to gnaw at me. (They’ve concerned me at a deep level for a long time, but they’re emerging again in my heart.) Managing the Sierra Club’s legislative program taxed me even though it was satisfying work. I’m beginning to wonder, just wonder at this point, if a more targeted engagement, say around the sulfide mining proposals might be a way to continue to make a contribution without the administrative load of a committee chair.
Politics is largely a matter of the heart for me and these proposals trouble me both for what they are and what they portend. They are a dangerous technology proposed for siting in a fragile ecosphere. More. They predict a future hungry for natural resources stored in the commons and willing to override natural catastrophe for temporary gain.