greens after Bush

This is a witty article assessing the way for USAmerican environmental movement to play things in the coming four years. Godd stuff we can all learn from. I particularly like this.

if you want people on your side, act like you're winning. Karl Rove gets this; it's why he had Bush doing victory laps through obviously blue states toward the end of 2000's squeaky-close election. Spiking trees and blocking roads can be incredibly effective as emergency measures to stop specific timber harvests, but as a primary strategy they are a mark, like all violence, of marginalization and helplessness -- of losing.



I got to thinking whether this applies more widely, like to Al Qaeda?

The last thing enviros need now is a bout of radicalism | By David Roberts | Grist Magazine | Soapbox | 22 Nov 2004