No. 7 BS: We are powerless to stop mountain top removal.
Over the years I got involved with NRDC's campaign to stop mountain top removal which is a devastating thing that nobody's stopping even though it's illegal.
On my way to a climbing trip, I have run into Israeli army flying checkpoints, and been stopped mountain-biking by police: had I heard gunshots?
Carr's scientists told him that the mountain's value as a water catchment was in peril: if the killing of trees could not be stopped, the mountain could be lost in just a few years.
A fingernail of moonlight illuminates the rough farm track in rural Southern Bohemia as three Swedes, two Finns, a Belgian, a Latvian, a Lithuanian, a Romanian, a Turk and a Scot stop their mountain bikes at the crossroads and try to work out what is the right route home, after having spent the day observing lessons in a high school in the local town of Jindrichuv Hradec.
But in a place where eco credentials are so readily evident, Swiss National Park – the country's first, and only – continues to be a relatively hidden treasure, with a landscape that is just as dramatic as Switzerland's more famous show-stopping mountains and a wildlife population that is far more diverse.
When the brush moves forward, a spring bubbles forth; when it stops, the mountains are in repose.
I appreciate that "small earthquake, nobody killed" does not sell newspapers, but please stop making mountains out of pretty steep hills.
The director of the N.S.A., Admiral Michael S. Rogers, said that when parts of the Patriot Act expired at midnight on Sunday, intelligence analysts immediately stopped collecting mountains of phone metadata and started reading billions of Facebook updates instead.
He also stopped competitive mountain-biking, because of pain caused by the repetitive bump movements.
I stopped believing mountains were "stakes" or "pegs," protecting the Earth from earthquakes.
