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MAY 25, 2001

"[Greenhouse Glasnost] began with a group hike up the mountain to a clearing where Mr. Redford made a toast to 'healing the planet.' Then, after explaining that 'Native Americans have a special understanding and relationship with the earth that we would all do well to learn,' he introduced two Indian chiefs to perform a ritual. As they recited prayers and lamented 'the white people's war on living things,' they built a fire out of wood and sprinkled tobacco in it.

It seemed a bit odd for a conference on cleansing the atmosphere to open with a ritualistic fire that wasted energy and spewed greenhouse gases mixed with the world's deadliest carcinogen. . ."

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