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A longtime advocate for public lands, Terry Tempest Williams has been at the forefront of fighting for conservation. This year, she stepped into the firing line. “I’ve thought so much lately about what erosion means – how the same geologic principles that erode stone also erode us closer to the essence of who we want to become,” she said. In her philosophical consideration of the natural world, Williams might be considered a successor to Thoreau, most famous for his nature writing but most ardent in his abolitionism. She’s taken up the gauntlet from her friend Edward Abbey, the Utah polemicist whose novel The Monkeywrench Gang launched a thousand bulldozer-wrecking Earth Firsters. Public lands have always been more than scenery in the US: they’re political battlegrounds, now and forever. “Lease sales are an ostensibly public process in which the public has no actual say,” Jason Schwartz, a Greenpeace media officer, told the Guardian. To Schwartz’s mind, Williams’s intervention carved out a potential new avenue for participation in the opaque auction system. “She showed that you don’t have to get arrested to protect the public interest – you can put a credit card down.”
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