And here is an entry from the ecoNOT blog last week.This Denver Post article provides helpful tips for how you can rest in (green) peace--and expunge from Mother Earth every foul trace of your past presence here. Boy, it doesn't get much better than that!
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Bill Clinton's "Peter and the Wolf"--and More
posted 09/12/03 (edited Friday, Sep 12, 2003 17:15)
Today on my ecoNOT.com Web site I've linked to a number of current media stories that survey the high points of life in our Green culture.
Bill Clinton's "Peter and the Wolf"--Columnist Mark Steyn reports that our former President has teamed with Mikhail Gorbachev to record (on the PentaTone label) an updated, Politically Correct version of Prokofiev's children's classic, "Peter And The Wolf." In this Green retelling, the duck-devouring wolf captured by Peter is, of course, a misunderstood victim of Man, and Peter (or did Mr. Clinton say "Peta"?) releases the grateful carnivore back to the wilderness. PentaTone's casting is a stroke of genius: who better qualified to report from the perspective of a wolf than Mr. Clinton? Steyn quotes thus from the CD: "'Forgetting his triumph, Peter thought instead of fallen trees, parched meadows, choked streams, and of each and every wolf struggling for survival,' narrates our Bill, addressing the root causes and feeling the wolf's pain. 'The time has come to leave wolves in peace.'" Are you listening, all you members of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy?
Bill Moyers, Green Crusader--On his PBS program "NOW," America's favorite tax-subsidized sermonizer blasts the Bush administration almost weekly for its environmental policies. In an online interview with something called Grist magazine, he rages: "[T]he government in Washington has declared war on nature." (He has a point: Eden, after all, was supposed to have been located in Iraq.) Moyers underscores my contention that political conflicts about the environment are, at root, really all about morality. "For me it comes down to our most cherished values. To our ethics," he says. "You're asking, rightly, questions about science and economics, but this is a deeply moral issue. Economics and politics are a poor excuse for the moral imperative that we need to follow to save what is not our own, so others that come after us can have a life." Give the man credit: it's hard to condense every fallacy and fantasy of environmentalism into a single interview, but somehow Moyers manages.
Things to Do (for the Earth) in Denver When You're Dead--It seems that Man remains the enemy of planetary hygiene even after he's deceased. "Alarmed by the amount of chemicals, concrete and metals buried in cemeteries and at the amount of water used each year to keep the grounds lush, nature lovers are looking for more Earth-friendly ways to rest in peace and scouting for burial grounds that respect the environment." This Denver Post article provides helpful tips for how you can rest in (green) peace--and expunge from Mother Earth every foul trace of your past presence here.
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