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Julia Butterfly Out On A Climb Analysis
The Dateline video on Julia Butterfly, Out On a Limb, was my favorite of the three videos this week. I liked the theme that one women could make so much of a change. She was risking her life because she thought it was the only way people would notice what was happening in the Redwood forest, she wasn’t wrong. I didn’t actually know that only 3% of the virgin redwood forest remains, most likely less than that now. If she protested on the ground, they would have chopped down the trees, including the one that she called Luna.
I understand what that company would want the $150,000 tree, but they already had such a bad reputation that they should have got a better public relations team to help make their decisions. Pacific Lumber seemed greedy,

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