Orwell’s forest The lush, dense, wild forest at Tomales Bay State Park. Word choice matters. Getting others to use words of your choosing is a powerful method of influencing not only their speech — but their thinking. George Orwell wrote: “If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” With this in mind, what would …
Question: How do logging companies justify increasing logging operations in our climate crisis (which is created by logging)? Answer: Yell, “WILDFIRE DANGER!” and break out the chainsaws. Right now, when we need more trees more than ever, the timber industry is expanding its logging operations — by exploiting the public’s very real (and understandable) fear of wildfire. Lobbying …