While the Senate was debating this bill, over a million gallons of “treated and partially treated” effluent containing human waste spilled from a Montpelier facility into the Winooski River. Other spills in the weeks before occurred in Rutland, Burlington, South Burlington and Essex Junction. That effluent heads downstream out to Lake Champlain.
Tag: Suzanna Jones
Suzanna Jones: Nihilistic relativism infects the green movement
After looking over H.926, a lawyer friend of mine asked me, 'Why do we now have to defend the environment from environmental organizations?'
Suzanna Jones: What 'Planet of the Humans' reveals about us
The criticisms of the documentary reveal how much power and money lie behind the renewables-as-savior myth.
Suzanna Jones: Bill McKibben’s faulty crisis logic
McKibben deserves credit for sounding the alarm about climate change early on, but now he should tell people the truth.
Suzanna Jones: Experiment in Environmental Ethics
Clever marketing has induced some of us to engage in moral relativism, ethics without substance and environmentalism at the cost of its soul.
Suzanna Jones: Sacrificing nature while claiming to save it
One of Bill McKibben’s faulty assumptions is that industrial renewables meaningfully address climate change.
Suzanna Jones: A 'solution' to climate change?
A film touring Vermont tells viewers that industrial-scale renewables are the solution – not only to climate change, but to the more localized environmental destruction the film decries.
Suzanna Jones: The business of climate change
How should Vermont respond to climate change? Few Vermonters would say, “Make money from it.” However, this was the theme of a recent conference.
Suzanna Jones: Betraying the environment
Today, the most ardent advocates of industrial buildout in Vermont’s most fragile ecosystems are environmental organizations. So what is happening?
Jones: What happened to Bill McKibben?
Environmentalism has been successfully mainstreamed, at the cost of its soul. This co-opted version isn't about protecting the landbase from the ever-expanding empire of humans. It’s about sustaining the comfort levels we feel entitled to without exhausting the resources required.
