Bodeen, Billy Bob H., Carla Neasel, Nona Esquellar, Timothy Bechtold, and David Varmint, eds., Earth First! 11, no. 4 (20 March 1991). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6953.
In this issue of Earth First! Timothy Bechtold gives an update on the protests against drilling along Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front. Also, Grace Nichols discusses what is to be done about parasitism, and Ursula Aves and Terre Goldman call for attention to the fight against the Canadian utility company Hydro-Quebec.
Though misanthropy has been most satisfying emotionally as a way of inner life (bah humbug), I find it is relatively useless politically. As a North American parasite, the most virulent, wasteful, cannibalistic and murderous regional variety of the species, I am in a strange position to be decrying planet death. I and almost everybody I know is so far removed from the way of life and thought practiced by a healthy human ecosystem, that we cannot imagine life beyond parasitism. Witness: EF!ers who drive cars.
— Grace Nichols
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