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Related: About this forum10 Stunning Things You Should Know About the Environmental Movement -- 'A Fierce Green Fire' Film
http://www.alternet.org/environment/10-stunning-things-you-should-know-about-environmental-movement-fierce-green-fire-film10 Stunning Things You Should Know About the Environmental Movement -- 'A Fierce Green Fire' Film Inspires
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1. IRS Stands For Irrational Resource Sellouts
Founded in 1892 by John Muir, the Sierra Club, which commands A Fierce Green Fire's first act, is the oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization in history. By the '60s, however, it had become a pernicious disseminator of "propaganda," according to the IRS, which revoked the Sierra Club's charitable status as pathetic payback for a series of popular protests against dams that would flood the Grand Canyon. It's but one birth pang of many that A Fierce Green Fire uncovers in the Sierra Club's outstanding history.
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2. Make Way For Earth National Park (Again)
Much of A Fierce Green Fire's act on Sierra Club focuses on its controversial former leader David Brower, who served as its first executive director from 1952-1969, before being ousted in a dispute over nuclear power, which he opposed. But despite many militant opinions, it is perhaps his polarizing conception of Earth National Park -- in which "all nations...unite against the one real common enemy: rampant technology" -- that may prove most prescient.
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3. Martin Litton, Badass
He may be 87, but the pioneering environmentalist, who teamed up with Brower to fight dam-building, is no fragile flower -- and he doesn't want the environmental movement to be either. Environmentalists should "be unreasonable," he argues in A Fierce Green Fire. They should have "hatred in [their] heart[s]" for polluters and ravagers, and they should tell a society that befouls the environment to "drop dead."
4. Spaceship Earth, Cleared For Takeoff
Despite Brower's aforementioned hatred of technology, one of the environmental movement's most notable evolutionary moments came in the '60s and '70s, when it embraced science and tools to effect local and global change. From Stewart Brand's countercultural DIY manual Whole Earth Catalog to the organic pioneer New Alchemy Instituteand beyond, hacking Earth became a hippie ideal that has evolved well into our still-new millennium.
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10 Stunning Things You Should Know About the Environmental Movement -- 'A Fierce Green Fire' Film (Original Post)
xchrom
Mar 2013
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chervilant
(8,267 posts)1. WHAT IF
we change our goals, as a species ?!
What if we, as a collective, decided that the many fruits of our massive brains would be used to insure that everyone participates, everyone is fed, everyone has shelter, and everyone has health care?!?
Oh, wait...that's communism. Or socialism. Or one of those pejorative isms the hedonistic CMs invented to justify their self-destructive greed.
For a moment there, I thought I was on to something ...
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)2. I want to see this nt
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)3. Looks awesome