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He offered to show us around his camp, and we jumped at the chance The railway station could wait This was an opportunity that wouldn’t come every day

He talked about the environment nonstop as alked He told us about all the crappy things being done to Mother Nature, the forests ere destroying, the rivers ere polluting, the air ere poisoning, the ani to extinction

"And this is all in our own country!"he said "I’ so to our own land!"

NOP was fighting to save the earth froerous humans who didn’t care what they did to it I had journeyed up and down the country trying to ave out pamphlets and books about how to protect the environh,"RV told us "It’s a start, but we must do more We have to stop the pollution and destruction of the countryside Take this place: They were going to build a road through an old burial ground, a place where people buried their dead thousands of years ago Can you i a part of history, just to save drivers ten or twenty minutes!"

RV shook his head sadly "These are crazy ti to this planet In the future - assu there is one - people will look back on e’ve done and call us idiotic barbarians"

He was very passionate about the environ to hiht about it much before, but after a couple of hours with RV, I realized I should have As RV said, those who don’t think and act now can’t complain when the world crumbles around their ears later

His ca place The people - twenty or so - slept in handmade huts that had been built out of branches and leaves and shrubs Most were as dirty and senerous

"How did you stop the road fro tunnels under the land,"RV said "And we sabotaged the machines they sent in And we alerted thecaood as twenty active warriors"

Evra asked RV if they ever fought hand to hand RV said NOP didn’t believe in violent confrontation, but we could see from the look on his face that he wasn’t happy about that "If I had ot We’re too nice soive those turkeys a taste of hell!"

RV invited us to stay for lunch It wasn’t very good food - there was no etables and rice and fruit - but we ate a lot to be polite

They had lots ofand oddly colored - but RV wouldn’t let us eat any of those

"When you’re older, h

We left soon after lunch The members of NOP had duties and jobs they had to do, and we didn’t want to be in the way

RV told us we could co on in a couple of days

"We’ve alht here,"he said "Another few days and it’ll be tio, ood-bye and headed for home

"That RV’s weird,"Sa to go off and fight for ani what he believes in,"Evra said

"I know,"Sa it We need people like him It’s too bad there aren’t more of them Still, it’s a weird way to live, don’t you think? You’d have to be pretty dedicated I don’t think I could becoreed

"I could,"Evra said

"You could not,"I scoffed

"Why not?"he asked "I could take ht with them"

"You just couldn’t,"I insisted

"Why not?"

"Because you’re not shed

Evra ranola side, weren’t they?"he admitted

"They sed my socks for a week!"Sam exclaimed

"Still,"Evra said, "I can think of lots of worst-ways to spend row up I’d kind of like to be like RV"

"Me, too,"Saet used to it"

We were in a good mood and talked about NOP and RV the whole way back to camp None of us had any idea of the trouble the nice ecowarrior would soon create or the tragedy he would unintentionally cause