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A Feather in Her Cap (historytoday.com)
27 points by Vigier on May 12, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


This is a delight to read on a topic kind of "near and dear" so to speak.

I'm an environmental studies major and a pet research project of mine had as one piece of it criticism of the location of a planned rail station in a protected bird sanctuary (critical flyway habitat) in the San Francisco Bay Area, where it will likely slowly sink into the marsh like Venice and you can't create much development nearby.

Sadly, I don't have the political organizing talents of Emily Williamson, so I've never figured out how to promote the idea that it's a terrible rail plan, though I did quite a lot of research into the myriad reasons it's bad, bad, bad.


In your comment, you've described a perfect image for a poster! Lampooning the station might be the best way to attract attention to is faults and unnecessary construction.


Thank you for your comment.

I'm no longer in California and that complicates things. I do have a website and a Reddit and I haven't simply thrown in the towel, but it's pretty back burner at the moment.


Gotta love that absurd capitalist reasoning (which still exits to this day) against banning importing bird feathers.

"Well they're going to die anyway so might as well be us killing them, and please don't take away our money printer"




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