A SUPERB
ISSUE
Dear
HCN,
As a longtime reader of HCN, I am writing to
commend your paper on the superb April 17 issue, and particularly
on your lead story, “The New West’s servant economy.” The
environmental movement has been criticized – sometimes justly – for
ignoring the human condition, as if humanity is not part of the
natural world we endeavor to protect and defend. Ray Ring’s piece
on immigrant workers in ski country put a humane face on issues
that other environmental publishers would rather
ignore.
Often, the public thinks that human
rights are principles to apply to distant foreign governments, but
HCN illuminates these principles by asking readers to think about
the circumstances that divide human beings from their environment.
The workers from Mali, Mexico and Peru have arrived on the snowy
slope after an arduous human highway that led them away from war,
starvation and abject poverty to take jobs in communities where
they cannot afford to live well. The irony of displaced immigrants
is not lost. It’s this kind of depth that sets HCN
apart.
Anne
Fitzgerald
Sacramento,
California
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline A superb issue.
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