After Jared Williams was elected Augusta DA, a lawyer and state lawmaker made an unusual proposal: that the whitest county split from the circuit

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The problem, as Cody suggests, isn’t visiting them, it’s visiting them and treating them like shit. Littering everywhere, disturbing habitats, going off trails… That’s the problem. If you stick to the path to the waterfall that’s already well-worn, that’s different.

      I also like his point that we act like those were pristine and untouched lands when actually huge numbers of people lived and maintained them before Europeans arrived. They just knew how to keep the land in balance with nature when they exploited the resources.