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i can speak to this drirectly. i spent 10 years from when i was 12 to wheo i was 22 protesting at a century old coal plant that had been designed to run for 30 years. i stopped demanding its closure because it closed. wind power in West Virginia was able to take up the slack. now, 12 years later, the president signed an executive order requiring the power company re-open it. not just a blanket order that included it. it was specifically named. it is now federal policy that coal plants that have already been replaced and shut down be re-opened.
the war against the land has reached a new temprement with those who wage the war switching from passive combat to active combat. but the land will win. in may not be in my lifetime, but almost worse might be if it is. the land is undefeatable. it has existed for 6.4 billion years. humanity has been at war with it for only about 3000. we are bound to lose if we figat against the land simply because the land's victory is inevitable. it will still be here even if everyone of us is dead.
i fight to protect the land because i want to be on the winning side