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#rainforests
My young, eager eyes lapped up the forest as fervently as they could. Novelty was what they hungered for, as my axe did for ****** wood. It was fresh. New. The Pacific Northwest wasn't ready for us. Wife and I moved out here a couple months ago with the promise we'd make a good, honest living out here. Y’know, these trees are so beautiful… real shame we’ve gotta cut ‘em all down for a whole lot less than what we was promised. Progress… for what? I don't think I wanna do this anymore… but I must. Onto the next tree. Hope this one's easier to cut down.
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Feb 5, 2025
Feb 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM UTC
The Logger's Lament
Is it just I who can't see this world? It is stunning from the shock it gives. You're blinded by the shock you heard. Don't wait for it as long as it lives.
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Aug 30, 2019
Aug 30, 2019 at 2:42 AM UTC
Stunning
El Nino, the jokes go, is responsible, to be levied our distaste.  What a disgrace, they're putting a Hispanic face on 1998's over a 100,000 killed by supposedly natural disasters.  Now Nina, naming her the cause of world drought, global warming, which the technocracies' altering weather cycles determined.  Their greed makes lies fly as truth, can your convenience, in allowing them to do it, further? This while they enjoy unparalleled short-term profits, paid for in real deficits, brought by their murdering of eco-systems, our progeny will pay a thousand times those delusional profits to repair, unsuccessfully.  That unending river of humanities' blood will soon take billions of poor to middle class lives before the extinction. Still, every second over an acre of rainforest is felled, every three a woman is castrated, a child dies, and only 50 % of us bother to vote! Still, we don't have real compassion for ourselves or others.  If no real changes will take place now, then  when, if not here, where, you, who?
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May 16, 2019
May 16, 2019 at 10:56 PM UTC
Millennia Muted