“Ski Chalet” in Aspen. Early 1950s

Aspen, Colorado. 1950s

Here’s what it looked like, leaving Albuquerque on a hot July day in 1968…

And 44 years later. This time I was standing to the right of the power poles instead of the left, but take a look at the poles—same poles.  And also note, Albuquerque has grown a lot since 1968. A lot.

AN EXCERPT:  To listen to a political leader at this moment in history is like sitting through a sermon by a priest who has lost his faith but is desperately trying not to admit it, even to himself. Watch Nick Clegg, David Cameron or Ed Miliband mouthing tough-guy platitudes to the party faithful. Listen to Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy or George Papandreou pretending that all will be well in the eurozone. Study the expressions on the faces of Barack Obama or Ben Bernanke talking about “growth” as if it were a heathen god to be appeased by tipping another cauldron’s worth of fictional money into the mouth of a volcano.

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Leopold Kohr

THIS is the kind of pandering that keeps me from ever being enthusiastic about Obama. This is the fantasy that mainstream environmentalists feed to their ditto-heads. ..JS

AN EXCERPT:   The president also made clear that it would be hard to find areas of compromise, and that he would not be pushed by environmental allies into policies that did not have broad support.

“If the message is somehow that we are going to ignore jobs and growth simply to address climate change I don’t think anyone is going to go for that. I won’t go for that,” Obama warned.

“If on the other hand we can shape an agenda that says we can create jobs, advance growth and make a serious dent in climate change and be an international leader I think that is something the American people would support.”

(NOTE:  Most environmentalists will be delighted. It’s the same  absurd, “We can have it all”  delusion offered by the NRDC, the EDF, the Sierra Club and other major green groups, heavily funded by the 1%…JS)

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Speech of Paul Kingsnorth at UNCIVILISATION, Dark Mountain Festival 2010 in Llangollen, Wales (29.5.2010). His talk (of which I missed the first 3 minutes) was part of the “Time to stop pretending” panel.

the dark mountain project: http://www.dark-mountain.net/
Paul’s website: http://www.paulkingsnorth.net

Surreal close-up of one turbine.

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Click the link above to see weird wind turbine video

AN EXCERPT:   “When Moab supports and promotes the construction of a $9 million “Moab Tourist Hub” and a mile-long “elevated bikeway,” and not a single environmental group—not SUWA, not the Grand Canyon Trust, not Living Rivers–offers ANY opposition, it speaks volumes about the total disconnect between “production” and “consumption.” Tourism and Elevated Bikeways and Transit Hubs are not forms of clean, non-motorized recreation. These kinds of tourist amenities and energy extraction are inextricably linked. One leads to the other. Yet environmentalists refuse to consider the unholy bond between them.”

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Death Valley, Texas Springs. 1952

A Death Valley prospector