Wow, here’s some news of the weird for you. There’s been an ongoing campaign against mountain top removal in West Virginia. Big Coal is playing dirty, and has been smearing opponents of their plans as “eco-terrorists.” The local press shamefully jumped on the bandwagon, calling Mike Roselle an “eco-terrorist” for civil disobedience and warning he […]
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After my recent post about the EPA’s list of environmental criminals not being labeled “eco-terrorists,†my nerdiness got the better of me and I couldn’t help thinking about grammar. The meaning of that term, “eco-terrorism,†isn’t intuitive or even logical. Depending on who is trying to use fear of “terrorism” to push a political agenda, […]
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