{"id":257,"date":"2007-09-01T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/09\/01\/257\/"},"modified":"2007-09-01T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-01T19:13:00","slug":"257","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/09\/01\/257\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

By way of GeekPress<\/a>, I found out about the “Exploit the Earth or Die”<\/a> campaign. I think it’s both amusing and true:<\/p>\n

It’s not a threat. It’s a fact. Either man takes the Earth\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

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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\u2019s raw materials — such as trees, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}