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speshal_k, am doing this in lieu of thoughtful real post:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1).
"It presided over another reorganization of the institutional machinery for environmental management, its environmental ministers won plaudits from environmental interest groups, it took a leading role in the debate over climate change, and it moved faster than its predecessors on such issues as encouraging less polluting energy. However, it fell out with environmentalists over the use of genetically modified crops, was accused of failing to provide leadership on the environment, and Tony Blair himself said and did little to suggest any personal interest in the environment, waiting more than three years to make his first speech on the subject. Following another major speech in early 2001 (this time on renewable energy), opinion still seemed to be mixed about the extent to which his government really cared about the environment."
['Environmental Politics and Policy in Industrialized Countries', U. Desai (ed.), 2002]
Cripes that's boring. Am at work, else would have had fiction - I just picked up three old school (late 70s early 80s) SF anthologies from an Op Shop yesterday, 99c each! So they're sitting on top on the to-read pile. Fortunately though I just returned some work-y library books, or I would've had to quote some really dull (and difficult to format) partial differential equations or something.
speshal_k, am doing this in lieu of thoughtful real post:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1).
"It presided over another reorganization of the institutional machinery for environmental management, its environmental ministers won plaudits from environmental interest groups, it took a leading role in the debate over climate change, and it moved faster than its predecessors on such issues as encouraging less polluting energy. However, it fell out with environmentalists over the use of genetically modified crops, was accused of failing to provide leadership on the environment, and Tony Blair himself said and did little to suggest any personal interest in the environment, waiting more than three years to make his first speech on the subject. Following another major speech in early 2001 (this time on renewable energy), opinion still seemed to be mixed about the extent to which his government really cared about the environment."
['Environmental Politics and Policy in Industrialized Countries', U. Desai (ed.), 2002]
Cripes that's boring. Am at work, else would have had fiction - I just picked up three old school (late 70s early 80s) SF anthologies from an Op Shop yesterday, 99c each! So they're sitting on top on the to-read pile. Fortunately though I just returned some work-y library books, or I would've had to quote some really dull (and difficult to format) partial differential equations or something.