Excerpt on Electricity
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Most people, when flicking on a light switch, do not reflect on the implications of electricity. But the juice doesn't come for nothing, and you can't buy your way out of a guilty verdict simply by paying you monthly bill.

When I flip that switch, a mining company bulldozer on Black Mesa in Arizona starts up, burning gallons of irreplaceable fossil fuel as it stripmines another ten acres of soft coal, displacing many desert creatures, plus a few Hopi Indians. The Indians must be relocated at taxpayer's expense, to cheap government housing (where, bereft of their land and traditional roots, they may fall into costly patterns of depression, alcoholism, welfare dependency, and other sorrows which are the stuf of cultural genocide).

Water, for use in coal slurry lines, is then diverted from rivers near Black Mesa, lowering their levels, killing more fish, and further endangering the aquatic life cycles of everything from goldeneye ducks to beavers.

The slurry lines carry the coal to an electricity-generating plant in the Four Corners area. When the coal is fired up to turn the vast electricity-generating turbines, pollution gushes into the air. Prevailing currents waft that pollution a few hundred miles east to Taos, where clouds unleash their poison rain upon our lakes and rivers...and into my garden.

There is a direct connection between my demand for electric lighting, the destruction of Hopi culture, and that cancerous carrot in my "organic" garden.

 

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