We've been hearing reports from concerned citizens across the state about grocery stores continuing to give out plastic bags free of charge, in defiance of New York's plastic bag ban. Help us convince the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) that they need to enforce the law starting on June 15th by sharing evidence with us.
The president said: "The front line was replaced with fresh agents, like magic. Big crowd, professionally organized, but nobody came close to breaching the fence. If they had they would have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen. That's when people would have been really badly hurt, at least. Many Secret Service agents just waiting for action. 'We put the young ones on the front line, sir, they love it, and ... good practice."
Aren't you glad that the president is just an AM Radio commentaror who is more interested in being a shock jock than a leader.
Personally, I trust the wisdom of people like Brothers founder Leon Van Dyke and State Pathelogist Ward Stone over the politicians. The electeds have an agenda, they have to maintain a working relationship with their campaign contributors and voters, they’re more willing to twist things to get reelected and be popular and loved by the community.
Since 1970, an outpouring of normality has just about destroyed the Earth: It has created an abnormal economic machine, blind to energy spending, that doubled the global population and boosted per capita consumption by 45 per cent.
At the same time the so-called value of global economic activity grew by 300 per cent. Meanwhile global trade has exploded like a coronavirus by 900 per cent. To support all this consumption and trade, the extraction of “living materials” from nature has jumped by 200 per cent.
Now here’s just a partial list of the cost of all this exponential normality: Humans have appropriated or altered 70 per cent of the world’s lands with mines, roads, industrial farms, cities and airports. We have engineered more than 75 per cent of the world’s longest rivers. We have filled the ocean with plastics and slaughtered coral reefs. Anyone who calls that kind of behaviour normal is crackers. It’s ecological imperialism, and nothing more than a full-scale assault on the dignity of local life.