Those who like hockey know that the most important member of any team is its goalie, whose difficult and often dangerous job is to put their body on the line to keep the other side from scoring.
Any club without a good goalie will lose every single game no matter how skilled the rest of the players might be. But what happens when a team is made up of ONLY goalies?
Best case scenario, your opponents might have a hard time scoring. But since no goalie can stop every shot, if your side doesn’t even put anything up on the scoreboard, you’ll probably still get beat all the time.
Sadly, this scenario (with some notable exceptions, mostly in the grassroots) is how I see the current state of the public lands movement in the U.S. We’re counting on a handful of brave and scrappy goalies to protect the last intact ecosystems from the endless onslaught of the extraction industry and corrupt government agencies such as the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. Most of this powerful defense takes the form of lawsuits and other crucial opposition to logging, grazing, mining, and drilling proposals in National Forests, National Monuments, and elsewhere.
While we’ve got a roster of kick-ass goaltenders, our opponents are packing the ice with a rink-full of brutal offensive players smacking dozens of pucks at our net nonstop. Meaning, no matter how hard we try, a lot of their shots slip through.
And it gets worse…
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