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Meg Chatham's avatar

What a beautiful garden that's teeming with life!! I'll be pondering how to get a megaphone for this question: "How different would we feel if, instead of hearing only about how many tons of carbon have been released by the fires, we were told how many black bears, tamarack trees, and lynx had gone up in smoke?"

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Ruben Bix's avatar

"How different would we feel if, instead of hearing only about how many tons of carbon have been released by the fires, we were told how many black bears, tamarack trees, and lynx had gone up in smoke?" So true. I remember this Australian dude I talked to during the horrible Australian wild fires of a couple years ago when we were seeing burning koalas on TV. "Why is everyone so excited?" he said. "There aren't any humans in there. It's all just brush." I wasn't allowed to argue with him. He was a customer, but the callousness of so many people when it comes to nature may well end up being the biggest crime (among many) of the human race.

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