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There is a simple way. First, distinguish between environmental luxuries and environmental necessities. Luxuries are those things it would be nice to have if costless. Necessities are those things we must have regardless. Then apply a rule. Call it the fundamental axiom of sane environmentalism: Combatting ecological change that directly threatens the health and safety of people is an environmental necessity. All else is luxury...
Read what? I am not talking exactly about reading to escape. Nor about reading to edify and impress oneself. Paradise Lost is not much help at 3 in the morning, except of course as a heavy sleeping potion. I mean the kind of reading one does to keep sane, to touch other intelligences, to absorb a little grace. In Vietnam the soldiers said, "He is a man you can walk down the road with." They meant, a man you can trust when the road is very / dangerous. Every reader knows there are certain books you can go down the road...
...DANGEROUS WOMAN by Mary McGarry Morris (Viking; $19.95). This searching novel about a woman who is one of life's losers creates a character who is crazy enough to be interesting and sane enough to describe her own incompetence...
...protest, organized by the Cambridge affiliate of SANE-Freeze began at about 3:30 p.m. on the corner of Garden St. and Mass Ave. As the evening progressed more and more people took a few minutes to join the original protesters...
...wish that the President would give sanctions a chance," said Olivia Abelson, chair of Cambridge SANE-Freeze, a national anti-war lobbying group...