If you really want to care about the environment, you need to know Jesus. And if you know Jesus, you really need to care about the environment.
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It’s not every day you’re threatened with hospitalization by a circus clown.
I was once a budding environmental activist, and some friends and I were protesting outside a circus that (so we’d been told) was mistreating a captive elephant. So there we were, four or five of us, standing by the roadside next to the entrance with signs and placards. We weren’t doing anything illegal or uncivil, but our presence naturally gave some members of the public reason to rethink whether they wanted to purchase a ticket, and before long one of the performers—the head clown, he informed us (and thankfully not yet in costume)—made it clear that if one more car turned away, he’d personally send us to the emergency room. As if any of us needed further reason to be scared of clowns.
