16-01-2022, 02:20 PM
“Their prime motivation is money or jobs – for humans, of course – because money & jobs buy votes or power. If wiping out forests means jobs & room for more people, they will wipe out forests. If killing animals means jobs & more room for people, they will drive the animals to extinction. Animals & forests do not vote. These destroyers care only that more room & more jobs be made available to accommodate the ever increasing number of people they encourage to be born, because an ever increasing population fuels our economic system.”
The Countess said, “But can’t they see what is happening to the world? Don’t they worry about it?”
Dora snorted. “They worry only that they be allowed to live out their lives in power & comfort. They buy the kind of lives they are destroying for others. They live in gated communities or in mansions on stretches of untouched land or perhaps in twelve room apartments at the tops of very tall, exclusive buildings. As for the poor, as for the animals, as for the trees, let them die.”
The family tree, Sheri Tepper
"Bobbi was in her forties by then & no longer a hooker. She was married & living in Houston, finally making an honest living. She worked as a receptionist at Enron."
Michael Tolliver lives, Armistead Maupin.
"I did know what she meant. She meant there were good homosexuals & bad homosexuals, & she would never think of me as a bad one. My parents, I remembered, had once categorised black folks in much the same way. They didn’t disapprove of all Negroes. Just the uppity ones. The ones who insisted on special rights."
Michael Tolliver lives, Armistead Maupin.
"People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk. "
Stephen King
The Countess said, “But can’t they see what is happening to the world? Don’t they worry about it?”
Dora snorted. “They worry only that they be allowed to live out their lives in power & comfort. They buy the kind of lives they are destroying for others. They live in gated communities or in mansions on stretches of untouched land or perhaps in twelve room apartments at the tops of very tall, exclusive buildings. As for the poor, as for the animals, as for the trees, let them die.”
The family tree, Sheri Tepper
"Bobbi was in her forties by then & no longer a hooker. She was married & living in Houston, finally making an honest living. She worked as a receptionist at Enron."
Michael Tolliver lives, Armistead Maupin.
"I did know what she meant. She meant there were good homosexuals & bad homosexuals, & she would never think of me as a bad one. My parents, I remembered, had once categorised black folks in much the same way. They didn’t disapprove of all Negroes. Just the uppity ones. The ones who insisted on special rights."
Michael Tolliver lives, Armistead Maupin.
"People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk. "
Stephen King
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)