If you’re one of those people who thinks that industry shouldn’t always have its way, that the rights of animals should be protected, that the distressingly common extinction of species is a scandal and that nature should be respected, I admire your strength and courage.
I developed a great concern for the plight of our planet when I was 12 and was asked to write a five-page report on the subject of my choosing. I wrote 50 pages on the ecological threat. That was back in the early ’70s, and of course Mother Nature is still on the run.
In 1996, I was arrested twice for activism. Recognizing hemp’s potential as a sustainable crop that can make food, paper, fabric and more, I planted hemp seeds in Kentucky as a way to challenge and promote legislation. My second arrest came later that year after I climbed the Golden Gate Bridge to protest the logging of the ancient redwoods.