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  Needed -- equally funded strategic vision projects

  Here in Sedona, Arizona, we face developers who are willing to go the whole nine yards with funding and defined and dedicated purpose.  The environment simply isn't even an element in their gameplan.  

  And they do have a long-term, well-funded gameplan.  They seem pots of gold at the end of their rainbows through lucrative real estate developments.  On top of that the only local newspaper is on their team, leaving the stage open to their myth building series of productions.  

  We have had surprising success against the real estate speculators, but they have the long-term dedication to the fabrication of mind-sets in the local populace.

  Day-in and day-out, the mythbuilders are spending time and money to set people up to accept the next big real estate exploitation, while we, the ones who realize the good, true, and beautiful in nature, seem to emerge from the woodwork as the next crisis of exploitation is all too near.

  The exploiters have funding, staff, and long-term goals.  Sure framing and other neuro-linguistic techniques have value, but they are little more than flash-in-the-pan artifices without vision and an on-going, funded program that is both inclusive and inspiring.

  Today, highly educated and qualified "environmentalists" seem to end up as status quo poodles.  I believe the real spirit of populism is within the people, not the meritocratic elite. Of course, Sedona is an expensive retirement area, so many who can afford to live and retire here seem timid probably because they come from "go-along-to-get-along" bureaucracries.

  Nevertheless, a program of longterm, information and inspiring leadership, open to listening in a spirit of equality, can bring powerful citizens out of the woodwork, to counter the power of wealthy real estate speculators and schemers.

  Nationally, I remain an eternal optimist about moving forward toward a quality-of-life that depends on a healthy environment.

  Just think of what could have been done with the hundreds of millions expended on the recent presidential campaign.  We can do anything they can do -- better!  And still march to the tune of a different drummer.

  Patrick Hickey
  phickey@esedona.netOn Whither the environmental movement? III posted 4 years, 11 months ago 16 Responses