Time To Change

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and there are probably others that we are not
aware of. If we do not start taking them seriously soon it will be too late,
if it is not already. We need to reevaluate our priorities and plan for the
future existence of this world.

A group labeled the Earth-Firsters' often attempt to accomplish this task
through drastic and sometimes dangerous methods. As Joni Seager states ( The
Eco-Fringe: Deep Ecology, Pg. 636), "In Australia, Earth-First protesters
buried themselves up to their necks in the sand in the middle of logging roads
to stop lumbering operations; in the American Southwest, Earth Firsters
handcuffed themselves to trees and bulldozers to prevent logging; and in
California, they dressed in dolphin and mermaid costumes to picket the
stockholders' meeting of a tuna-fishing company." The Earth-Firsters' tactics
are not the only drastic only measures they practice. Their ideas seem to be
quite extreme as well. For example, they believe the population of the world
is ...

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