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143. Bacher, 1.

144. San Francisco Chronicle, September 26, 2002.

145. St. Clair and Cockburn. See also “Get the Facts and Clear the Air,” National Campaign Against Dirty Power, http://cta.policy.net/dirtypower/ (accessed September 3, 2004).

Predator and Prey

146. Anderson Valley Advertiser, November 19, 2003, 2.

147. Jensen, Culture, 60.

148. Ibid., 87-89.

149. Faust, 184.

150. In other words, I didn’t know the answer to this question, but because I am male I was required by law to still give an answer.

151. I can, however, say that when I’ve shared the stage with traditional indigenous peoples, I’ve noticed that they have nodded in agreement when I’ve mentioned this predator/prey relationship.

Choices

152. Anderson Valley Advertiser, August 18, 2004, 8. I’m sorry again for the male specificity.

153. The National Science Foundation to the Center for Biological Diversity, October 16, 2002, http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/species/beaked/NSFResponse.pdf (accessed October 26, 2002). Information about whales and decibels cobbled together from the following sites: http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/press/beaked10-15-2002.html (accessed October 26, 2002); http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/whales/explanation (accessed October 26, 2002); http://www.faultline.org/news/2002/10/beaked.html (accessed October 27, 2002); and from lots of sources on sound. The authors of the sources on whales would almost undoubtedly be (at least publicly) horrified by my next paragraph, and I need to make clear that my response is just that: my response.

154. Actually the river flows are a little more complex: while what I said about the Russian River being tapped out because of vineyards is true, that effect is actually invisible because of the diversion of the Eel River into the Russian River. In fact, the Russian River used to close off seasonally, but since the Eel diversion, it hasn’t. There’s actually more water flowing down the Russian River today than historically. There’s even a project under way to decrease the amount of water to make it resemble natural flows more closely. So far, so good. But it gets sticky really fast: part of the reason for the diversion from the Eel is that the town of Santa Rosa dumps its treated sewage water into the Russian River, and wants to follow the mantra of “the solution to pollution is dilution”; the other part of the reason is recreational. Drinking water and water for vineyards is all taken from groundwater—that underground part of the river we don’t see. We see the effects of this mainly in secondary streams, which dry up, and in the drying up of people’s wells. But it may also be that were the flow from the Eel shut off entirely, the Russian River would probably go to levels lower than its natural flow: you can’t take water from a region without affecting water flow. The bottom line: people have messed up what nature was doing with these rivers—the Eel is depleted by diversion, and the Russian River floods worse every year, partly because of the diversion and partly because it has been boxed in and has had so much sediment dumped into it. I am grateful to Leha Carpenter for this analysis.

155. My thanks to Sean Tanner for this paragraph.

156. “U.S. Military Spending,” 9.

157. Oxford English Dictionary, compact ed., s.v. “addict.”

158. Engels, 668.

Abuse

159. Murray.

160. Fisk.

161. “Signs to Look for in a Battering Personality,” Projects for Victims of Family Violence, Inc., http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/soupandsalad/content13.htm (accessed November 17, 2002).

162. Exodus 20:5.

163. Deuteronomy 6:14-15.

164. And for those of you naïve enough to think Capitalism is guided by some mythic invisible hand of some mythical Free Market™, I give you the words of someone who should know, Dwayne Andreas, CEO of Archer Daniels Midland, an agricorporation that has done as much as almost any other to destroy the lives of family farmers the world over: “There’s not one grain of anything in the world that is sold in the free market. The only place you see a free market is in the speeches