Word: huggers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with ones worldview? Should a born-again evangelical have to see his tax dollars spent on representations of homosexuality? How about Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase?" He might just fear hellfire and brimstone as punishment for underwriting any display of carnality. Heck, what about a fanatical tree-hugger--should his tax dollars help house murals depicting the brutal subjugation of the American West...
When he first proposed the idea of forest protection to the Eyak Corp., his fellow board members voted him down, 8 to 1. "They called me a greenie and a tree hugger," he recalls. Undeterred, Lankard gave up his fishing business, set up the Eyak Rainforest Preservation Fund and began lobbying politicians and native Alaskans throughout the state. "Indigenous people have thousands of years of being preservationists," he would argue. "We need to become stewards of the land again." In Lankard's view, not only the trees and streams were endangered; so were the native cultures that depended on them...
...TREE HUGGER As of Dec. 10, environmental activist Julia Hill, also known as Butterfly, will have spent a full year perched in the branches of a Northern California redwood dubbed Luna. Butterfly's sit-in, a protest against logging by the Pacific Lumber Co., was reported in our May 11, 1998, issue. Last month the California Department of Forestry suspended Pacific Lumber's timber operating license for repeated violations of the state's forest-practice rules. But since the citation does not prevent Pacific Lumber from hiring outside contractors, Butterfly believes Luna and surrounding trees are still at risk...
...growing trend toward democratization and modernization. To rally opposition to NAFTA, Perot often relies on a portrait of Mexico as dirty, corrupt and backward. He uses border pollution as a code to conjure up stereotypical images of filthy Mexicans. (Though few would have guessed he is a closet tree-hugger, Perot is not above dressing in green when it suits his needs...