#12 Ken's walk
Oil independent or Opec dependent seem to fuel the political landscape. A young writer who is an environmentalist, Ken Ilgunas , wanted to see first hand what the 1900 miles were all about so he set out on foot to experience the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to Texas. Ilgunas stated, “When I think about our culture’s addiction to fossil fuel, its indifference to the natural world, and the sheer impossibility of any major change happening soon, I can’t help but despair. Almost as depressing as an inevitable collapse is how powerless I feel as an individual.” Llgunas was 28, broke washing dishes, and thought his life didn’t have much meaning, just many grand ideas. So in September 2012, Ken Ilgunas began hitchhiking in Denver, north to the Alberta tar sands. He hoped that the journey down the pipeline would explain why conservatives and liberals united against the pipeline in some states but not in others. The proposed pipeline’s route was all private property the...