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Last year, I became aware of a new (at least to me) environmental/progressive activist in Moab named Darcey Brown. She’s become a voice for “New Moab” and has been a frequent contributor to the Letters section of the Moab weekly, the Times-Independent; I read, with curiosity, her inflammatory public comments. And when a few Moabites told me she’d come from a prominent family in my favorite New West town Aspen, Colorado, I decided to respond to some of her remarks via a short essay in The Zephyr.
LINK: http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2015/06/01/take-it-or-leave-it-on-the-facts-darcey-brown-moab-then-now-by-jim-stiles/
I didn’t get angry or call her names. In fact, I even suggested that she probably “meant well.” But I took issue with Brown’s claim that grassroots environmental groups lived in semi-poverty and offered some hard financial numbers (via the IRS) for the likes of SUWA and the Grand Canyon Trust. I also noted that, coming from a very powerful and wealthy Colorado family–her father played an influential role in the Aspen ski industry— it might be difficult to relate to the issues and concerns of working class people in Grand County. And I noted that she manages a non-profit foundation herself, with assets of almost $5 million.
In response, Ms. Brown went through the roof…
To read more of Jim’s article, click the image below:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2015/08/02/a-reply-to-darcey-brown-and-the-insularity-of-the-erudite-part-1-by-jim-stiles/
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Pete and I were married at La Sal, June 7, 1933 by Bishop Leland Redd. Pete’s Father and Mother and two of his brothers and his sister and my Dad and his five younger children and my two children were there at the wedding. It was a nice day and the sheep were feeding in a big field close by so Felix could be with us too.
As soon as the wedding was over Pete and I took the sheep back to Coyote Wash and spent our first few days of married life at the sheep camp. What a way to spend a honeymoon. But then people did a lot of things they would not have done if we had not had that depression…
To read more of Verona’s Personal History, click the image below:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2015/08/02/my-personal-history-part-8-verona-and-pete-get-married-by-verona-stocks/
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Last month, the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) captured a series of test photos with its Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera. From its lofty perch 1 million miles from Earth, EPIC looked on as the moon transited our planet:
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nasa-photo-moon-dark-side_55c23d3ae4b0138b0bf4abb5?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592&kvcommref=mostpopular
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EXCERPT: But for some who study climate change the only shame is this: Obama’s plan does not go nearly far enough. It’s meek and dangerously self-congratulatory, sapping the movement of urgency while doing almost nothing to maintain the future habitability of the earth.
“The actions are practically worthless,” said James Hansen, a climate researcher who headed NASA’s Goddard’s Institute for Space Studies for over 30 years and first warned congress of global warming in 1988. “They do nothing to attack the fundamental problem.”
“You’ve got to be kidding,” he wrote, when asked if the plan would make continued climate activism unnecessary. Obama’s plan, and for that matter the proposed plan Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, he continued, “is like the fellow who walks to work instead of driving, and thinks he is saving the world.”
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http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obamas-climate-policy-practically-worthless-says-expert
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We’re sharing, via screenshot, these comments by JEANETTA WILLIAMS, President of the Salt Lake City branch of the NAACP.
RE: the proposal to change the name of Negro Bill Canyon near Moab…
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The heart of this argument is not whether the word “Negro” should be used in daily conversation to describe African-Americans. Nobody is remotely suggesting that. The question is, or should be, is it proper to use the term, Negro,’ in its historical context?
What makes this debate so unique, of course, is the fact that the push to change the name comes predominantly from middle class white people. Among the most ardent defenders of the word “Negro” in its historical context is Jeanetta Williams, President of the Salt Lake City Chapter of the NAACP. For several years, she has repeatedly expressed her support for leaving the canyon’s name as it is. She told the Associated Press, “We don’t want to lose the history,”
It would almost seem impossible to challenge her knowledge and commitment. But that’s precisely what Grand County Councilwoman Mary McGann did, and then some.
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http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2015/08/02/in-defense-of-jeanetta-william-the-naacp-the-negro-bill-debate-continues-by-jim-stiles/
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EXCERPT: According to the results of the 2015 Revision, the world population reached 7.3 billion as of mid- 2015 (table 1), implying that the world has added approximately one billion people in the span of the last twelve years. Sixty per cent of the global population lives in Asia (4.4 billion), 16 per cent in Africa (1.2 billion), 10 per cent in Europe (738 million), 9 per cent in Latin America and the Caribbean (634 million), and the remaining 5 per cent in Northern America (358 million) and Oceania (39 million). China (1.4 billion) and India (1.3 billion) remain the two largest countries of the world, both with more than 1 billion people, representing 19 and 18 per cent of the world’s population, respectively.
The world population is projected to increase by more than one billion people within the next 15 years, reaching 8.5 billion in 2030, and to increase further to 9.7 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion by 2100
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http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/
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