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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Planet Safe How the bear inside you could save the world	Elizabeth Sawin	12 Nov 2001	Global Citizen
"Sobs racked the body of a middle-aged man as he cradled the head of his baby, its dust-covered body dressed only in a blue diaper, lying beside the bodies of three other children, their colorful clothes layered with debris from their shattered homes." I held this sentence, from a Reuters report on the civilian casualties in Afghanistan, in my head all day long. By the time my girls were in bed ...
Topics: climate, energy, national security, toxics (all these topics)

Hey, Where Did the Earth Go? Environmental news has been hard to find since Sept. 11	Hal Clifford	31 Oct 2001	Soapbox
I was lounging at my local coffee shop, wondering how the barista got that giant nose ring out each night, when Flym Wyntrobski barged through the door, all flapping elbows and gangly legs. He plopped down in a chair at my table, pulled something crunchy from his unkempt beard, examined it, and popped it in his mouth. He gazed thoughtfully at the ceiling as he chewed, as if trying to ...
Topics: environmental movement, national security (all these topics)

Thoughts in the Presence of Fear A post-Sept. 11 manifesto for environmentalists	Wendell Berry	11 Oct 2001	Soapbox
I. The time will soon come when we will not be able to remember the horrors of Sept. 11 without remembering also the unquestioning technological and economic optimism that ended on that day. II. This optimism rested on the proposition that we were living in a "new world order" and a "new economy" that would "grow" on and on, bringing a prosperity of which ev ...
Topics: economy, innovation, international politics, national security, politics, tech (all these topics)

What Now? One month after Sept. 11, it's a whole new environment		11 Oct 2001	Main Dish
Back in the pre-Sept. 11 era, or roughly a lifetime ago, when the word terrorism cropped up during discussions of environmental issues, it always seemed slightly out of context, an act of appropriation. Vandalism committed in the name of the environment (against SUVs, genetically engineered crops, sprawling housing developments) became eco-terrorism. Some environmentalists co-opted the word right back, and deliberate en ...
Topics: eco-terrorism, environmental movement, national security (all these topics)

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