I still remember my first class in mineralogy when I determined that I would never be able to work for the mining industry. The professor casually started talking about how they use "cyanide sprinklers" (can you imagine a more disincongruous image? Sprinklers were always happy summer things to me before that.) to separate the gold from the crushed ore...outside, you know...in nature....I was completely horrified and worse...I seemed to be the only one asking hard questions about this in the class.
Don't get me started on the oil industry. I made the idealist mistake of trying to fix it from the inside and had to drag my crushed environmentalist spirit out of there a few years later.
I'm hoping going into policy will help. In any event, I'm going to keep voting Green and pushing for them to get a seat, or at least a voice in the debates.
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Date: 2007-01-27 02:31 pm (UTC)Don't get me started on the oil industry. I made the idealist mistake of trying to fix it from the inside and had to drag my crushed environmentalist spirit out of there a few years later.
I'm hoping going into policy will help. In any event, I'm going to keep voting Green and pushing for them to get a seat, or at least a voice in the debates.