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Thursday, June 17, 2004

Mickey and Sparrow Reach Their Quota

On Jan. 26, 2004, I sent out this link to an article about a looming environmental crisis:

Does anyone know anything else about this? Is this what we need before
people react?

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=484490
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Sparrow, the funniest poet/presidential candidate on earth, replied:


my goodness!  I had no inkling the age of Ice might be so near.

Sage snow,
sparrow
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To which, I said:

Well, the article was a tad alarmist...but here’s what an activist
friend of mine said in response: “Yes, we need to act as if our survival
depends on the integrity of our actions.  There are a lot of alarming
statistics, even if only 1/4 of them are true we better kick ass.”

Digging out,

MZ
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Sparrow replied with a quote and, over the next few months, we shared the following exchange posted here for your reading pleasure. Just click on “more”:

“alarmism in the defense of popular revolt is no vice.” -
patrick henry*

*actually I just manufactured it

Sparrow
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