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  Appropriated ownership

  Ed Abbey said:

  As for "appropriated ownership", THAT is exactly what Cape Wind is trying todo with the public space that is Horseshoe Shoals. Cape Wind is all about privatization of the Commons. They profit, we get stuck with the liabilities.

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  I say that if you want to talk about appropriated ownership, let's talk about how cars have appropriated ownership of the public commons, how public streets that used to be used for walkers and bicyclists and horse-drawn vehicles and cars are now used almost exclusively by cars, that in this country alone kill tens of thousands and injure a million more EVERY YEAR.  Let's talk about how coal burning has appropriated the use of my lungs for its pollution.  Let's talk about how nuclear power has appropriated my genes and the genes of future generations for its damage, and how it has appropriated the air and water of the whole world for its routine radioactive releases.  Let's talk about how carbon emissions have appropriated the future of thousands of species, and possibly those of humans, too.  Let's talk about the fact that all freshwater fish in the northeast contains mercury, a result of burning coal for power, and the fact that I did not choose to have mercury as an ingredient in all the fish I eat.  Let's talk about all the autistic children being born, and the fact that autistism has been linked to exposure to heavy metals, such as mercury in the fish you eat, the mercury that gets spread around when the coal that contains it is burned.

  At a time when the cancer rate in this country is approaching 40%, when the rate of children born with neurological problems is increasing, when the earth has a fever, when most people drink water laced with pharmaceuticals and toxins, when we are drowning in our poisons, I cannot understand resistance to those choices which can lead to a better future.On What we lose if Bloomberg's plan goes down posted 1 year, 7 months ago 5 Responses