By way of GeekPress, I found out about the “Exploit the Earth or Die” campaign. I think it’s both amusing and true:

It’s not a threat. It’s a fact. Either man takes the Earth’s raw materials — such as trees, petroleum, aluminum, and atoms — and transforms them into the requirements of his life, or he dies. To live, man must produce the goods on which his life depends; he must produce homes, automobiles, computers, electricity, and the like; he must seize nature and use it to his advantage. There is no escaping this fact. Even the allegedly “noble” savage must pick or perish. Indeed, even if a person produces nothing, insofar as he remains alive he indirectly exploits the Earth by parasitically surviving off the exploitative efforts of others.

They had a graphic element available for it, so I put that in the sidebar to the right; it’s at the bottom, under “links I find interesting.”

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