THIS HAS TO STOP! CAPITALISM DOES NOT ACCOUNT FOR POISONING A LAKE OR RIVER. HEY FASB, DO SOMETHING RIGHT.
Here are some articles from Outside Magazine from this past week.
10 things we read and wrote this week.
What You Missed
What we wrote:
Last week, while front pages and Twitter feeds spilled over with news
of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the committee voted along
party lines and passed five bills that could devastate protections for endangered species.
This isn’t some cavalier attempt at raising the bar. It’s about a vision of putting two women into the record books of human achievement.
Of all the threats that our environment faces, one of the most insidious is voter complacency.
We watched a man and woman fill a shopping bag full of round rocks
known locally as “Moqui Marbles.” These iron oxide concretions form deep
within the sandstone and tumble out over millennia—like raisins
liberated from a carrot cake—as the surrounding rock erodes. “It’s a
crime to take even a single one,” said Hoyt. “But, hey, who’s looking these days?”