A Channel 4 (british tv) news report has just shown footage of a World
Wildlife Fund-sponsored company raping mangrove forest in Papua New Guinea.
Jared Diamond is somehow involved; in between trying to grab the camera, while
exiting swiftly at a local airport, he is heard to say 'So what? Much worse
things happen.' and the like.

Probably I'm a fucking old idiot, as my wife says, and no doubt I am. I don't
know why I find this news so disturbing. After all, I'm as down on Jared 'Guns
germs and Steel' Diamond (who turns out to be a fifty+ year-old with a
sinister baldy haircut) as anyone can be, and I never gave a penny to WWF, not
consciously anyway. Maybe it's the pictures of cheerful young Papuan New
Guineans drowning their homeland for twenty bucks each, that's pissed me off.
I dunno.

I think it would be a good idea to close the CrashList and go get drunk
forever.

Mark (God Bless you all) Jones


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