August 09, 2004

8/9 - The Way We Weren't: John D. MacDonald's take on SB in Florida

The nice thing about "shifting baselines" is that there are many different ways to convey it. Here's how John D. MacDonald described it for Florida in his novel, "The Empty Copper Sea":

Florida can never really come to grips with saving the environment because a very large percentage of the population at any given time just got there. So why should they fight to turn the clock back? It looks great to them the way it is. Two years later, as they are beginning to feel uneasy, a few thousand more people are just discovering it all for the first time and wouldn't change a thing. And meanwhile the people who knew what it was like twenty years ago are an ever-dwindling minority, a voice too faint to be heard.

- Mike Boone, Boonedocks Blog

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Posted by Amy at August 9, 2004 06:23 AM
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