By FRANK WATSON
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We need to save humanity in order to save this planet of ours

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Last updated 2/22/2018 at 11:49am



I drove over to Wenatchee last week for a meeting. As is normal for me when I travel alone, I enjoyed the countryside and day-dreamed most of the way. As I drove pass the irrigation canals, forests of electric transmission lines and crossed the bridge at Vantage, it dawned on me that we have transformed this planet into a habitat for humans.

Not long ago, Central Washington was an expanse of arid sage brush. Now it is crisscrossed with paved roads, and the sage brush scrubland has been replaced with lush cropland.

As a boy I could take my .22 rifle and go for miles in the woods along the...



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