Dan Dagget
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The right way to be green

by Dan Dagget

The midterm elections are approaching fast, and as usual the environment is considered a Democratic issue. I had no problem with that when I was fighting strip mines in Ohio in 1973; environmentalism was synonymous with leftist politics. In the early ’80s, when a friend told me someone named Dave Foreman was forming an environmental […]

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Nature works better with us

by Dan Dagget

You’ve seen the ads: Some eco-celebrity urges you to make a donation to save one of the earth’s last special places. Your generous gift will help protect this place so it remains healthy and pristine forever. Few of us bother to think that this pitch contains a huge assumption — that protecting a piece of […]

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It’s unAmerican, or at best unWestern, but cooperation works

by Dan Dagget

My mailbox is sounding the call to arms again. Since a Republican majority was elected to Congress, it’s been bulging with warnings that Newt Gingrich and his munchkins will dismantle most of the environmental gains made since the 1960s. Send more money and write more letters, the warnings trumpet, or risk seeing this environmental “dark […]

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