Extreme ways are back again

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

You have until Friday to leave your comments—the government is required to record and address every single one. It doesn’t have to be long, just unique: tell them why nature and biodiversity is worth more than lumber and concrete roads.

Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon), female, EAT TASTY FISH!!!, family Alcedinidae, order Coraciiformes, found across most of North America, Central America, and coastal northern South America