{"id":8646,"date":"2013-12-01T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=8646"},"modified":"2013-12-01T12:00:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T20:00:22","slug":"aprilmay-2013-a-1982-interview-with-ed-abbeyby-eric-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/01\/aprilmay-2013-a-1982-interview-with-ed-abbeyby-eric-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"(April\/May 2013) A 1982 Interview with Ed Abbey\u2026by Eric Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpt: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ET)\u00a0 What do you see as the major environmental problem in Arizona right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EA)\u00a0 Progress.\u00a0 Development, Growth, Industry\u2013everything that the politicians and the chamber of commerce loves, I\u2019m against.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s gradually destroying Arizona, and I don\u2019t think it will survive\u2013I think we\u2019re using up our resource base, especially water, much faster than it can ever be replaced.\u00a0 Therefore, unless some sort of technological miracle saves us, I imagine that Phoenix and Tucson will be small towns again, and probably very nice places to live.<\/p>\n<p>I was just reading a very good book by Charles Bowden, \u201cKilling the Hidden Waters\u201d which goes into this subject in great detail, historical and geological.\u00a0 He describes how the Papago Indians survived out here simply by living off the land, mainly hunting and gathering.\u00a0 Surviving on surface water\u2013a few springs and flash floods for farming, and they got by for 10, maybe 20 thousand years.\u00a0 \u2018Course they didn\u2019t create what most of us would consider a very brilliant civilization, but they had a satisfying way of life and were probably as happy as most modern Americans&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the image below to read the rest of Eric&#8217;s interview with Ed Abbey:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/04\/01\/an-interview-with-ed-abbey-by-eric-temple\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8647\" alt=\"abbey2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/abbey2.jpg\" width=\"471\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/abbey2.jpg 957w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/abbey2-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/04\/01\/an-interview-with-ed-abbey-by-eric-temple\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/04\/01\/an-interview-with-ed-abbey-by-eric-temple\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: ET)\u00a0 What do you see as the major environmental problem in Arizona right now? EA)\u00a0 Progress.\u00a0 Development, Growth, Industry\u2013everything that the politicians and the chamber of commerce loves, I\u2019m against.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s gradually destroying Arizona, and I don\u2019t think it will survive\u2013I think we\u2019re using up our resource base, especially water, much faster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8646"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10425,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8646\/revisions\/10425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}