Words Like Locusts Flew From Her Fingers

Idiots Burn Down Ugly Townhouses

Arsons May Be Work of Activists
An early morning arson fire that damaged four unoccupied townhouses could be the work of a group of radical environmentalists, the FBI and the city’s fire chief said Monday.

If so, then they (the Earth Liberation Front) are truly idiots. I, too, hate seeing the forests of northern Virginia and Maryland being torn down in order to put up yet more townhouses. The number of animals killed in these “projects”, either outright or through loss of habitat, is truly monstrous. Add to that the increase in human population, with its accompanying garbage and mini-vans and SUVs, and you’ve got yourself a full-fledged environmental threat. Burning down townhouses isn’t going to change things, though. All that’s going to do is land a person in jail and persuade the majority of the public that you’re nothing more than a dangerous kook. If you want to really change things, you’ve got to work on how people think about the issue. You’ve got to change minds and that only happens slowly through a considered campaign of public awareness.

That’s why I’m a member of the Sierra Club and the World Wildlife Fund, AND the Nature Conservancy. You, too, can be a member of one or all of these fine organizations. Just click on the links to go to their web sites.