{"id":927,"date":"2005-03-22T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-22T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/03\/22\/dear-senator-stevens\/"},"modified":"2005-03-22T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-22T13:17:00","slug":"dear-senator-stevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/dear-senator-stevens\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Senator Stevens&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wonderfully scathing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/comments\/soapbox\/2005\/03\/18\/williams\/?source=rss\">open letter to Sen. Ted Stevens<\/a> from Terry Tempest Williams on his &#8220;victory&#8221; in getting the Senate to approve drilling in ANWR.  Tempest Williams sums it beautifully:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What if the man in the chair with his head in his hands, rocking back and forth, in and out, in and out, is simply staring at the cardboard walls of his own impoverished imagination?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <em>Grist<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ANWR\" rel=\"tag\">ANWR<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/politics\" rel=\"tag\">politics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wonderfully scathing open letter to Sen. Ted Stevens from Terry Tempest Williams on his &#8220;victory&#8221; in getting the Senate to approve drilling in ANWR. 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