Working Papers For A New Society, Summer 1973
IT IS JUST within the realm of possibility that low-income groups, by joining with environmentalists, labor and other progressive forces, could bring about a favorable distribution of land ownership in California. The mechanism for doing this could be a state government trust fund which might be called the California Land Conservation Fund.
The New Republic, March 24, 1973
UNDER the rolling plains of eastern Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas is one of the world’s last great energy reserves — nearly a trillion tons of lignite and sub-bituminous coal, about 35 billion of which are readily strippable. A good many ranchers, young people and others, however, don’t want to mine it.
The New Republic, July 17, 1971
The kind of progress Hopis can’t absorb is that which makes them dependent upon white man’s jobs or welfare, destroys their attachment to the earth, and profanes their religion. The tragedy lies not only in our readiness to commit cultural genocide, but in our inability to listen to a people who’ve been around a lot longer than we have, and may know something we don’t know.
The New Republic, July 3, 1971
The root problem is to decrease America’s appetite for neon glitter, artificial air and electricity-devouring conveniences such as aluminum beer cans — or, if that can’t be done, to arrange that those who desire electricity bear the full costs of its production.
The New Republic, June 19, 1971
IT’S HARD for people in cities to appreciate the need for land reform in the United States. Most of us have been so cut off from the land that, through ignorance, we accept present landholding patterns as desirable or inevitable. They are neither.
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