I'm back...


...from mountain-climbing and tent-sleeping and campfire-sitting up in Mineral King, part of the Sequoia National Park.

I don't get out into nature much, so it was an eye-opening experience as well as a wonderful one, and it gave me a visceral understanding of how important it is to conserve our wild land — as well as a clear view of how fragile the land is. I'm certainly pro-environment but I'm ordinarily not much of an "environmentalist" (my liberalism comes from a civil liberties and social justice direction); nonetheless, proximity to nature encouraged me to think less of worldly matters and more of planetary ones...

...until this observation brought me back down to earth: Why does everyone up there seem to be a yellow-ribbon-flaunting, SUV-driving, flag-waving, Bible-thumping (presumable) Republican? Don't they know what the GOP is doing to the parks system and the environment in general?

More about this as I re-integrate myself into urban, wired society.

Posted: Mon - June 27, 2005 at 07:23 AM   | Category:     |   |   | |


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