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Hummer T - Its more than a SUV. Its a 10-mile per gallon, 8500lb behemoth that can murder drivers of sensible cars. Its a Chevy Tahoe chassis cheaply disguised as the original hummer. Its the ultimate symbol of gluttonous ignorance gone awry. There is no justification for buying a vehicle like this. H2 owners have no regard for their fellow man, the environment, or our troops who are giving their lives to secure Iraqi oil.

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"We like to think of progress as modern man's struggle to secure better food for more people, warmer clothing and finer dwellings for the poor, more medicine and hospitals for the sick, increased security against war, less corruption and crime, a happier life for young and old. But, as it has turned out, progress involves much more. It is progress when weapons are improved to kill more people at a longer range. It is progress when a little man becomes a giant because he can push a button and blow up the world. It is progress when the man in the street can stop thinking and creating because all his problems are solved by others who show him what happens if he turns on a switch. It is progress when people become so specialized that they know almost everything about almost nothing. It is also progress when reality gets so damned dull that we all survive by sitting staring at entertainment radiating from a box, or when one pill is invented to cure the harm done by another, or when hospitals grow up like mushrooms because our heads are overworked and bodies underdeveloped, because our hearts are empty and our intestines filled with anything cleverly advertised. It is progress when a farmer leaves his hoe and a fisherman his net to step onto an assembly line the day the cornfield is leased to industry, which needs the salmon river as its sewer. It is progress when cities grow bigger and fields and forests grow smaller, until ever more men spend ever more time in subways and bumper-to-bumper car queues, until neon lights are needed in daytime because buildings grope for the sky and dwarf men and women in canyons where they roll along with klaxons screaming and blow exhaust all over their babies. When children get a sidewalk in exchange for a meadow, when the fragrance of flowers and the view of hills and forest are replaced by air conditioning and a view across the street. It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign." From the book Fatu-Hiva by Thor Heyerdahl

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