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A peaceful area for meditation and prayer in Leawood, Kansas. We have an incredibly beautiful world that we should protect and cherish. A number of readers are unhappy when I refer to "Big Climate." Here's some information that will clarify why I choose to use that term: "According to E&E News, the CEO of the World Wildlife Fund, Carter Roberts, takes home a nifty $1.2 million each year in compensation. Similarly the president of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) gets close to one million each year, and the head of the Nature Conservancy gets three-quarters of a million. It takes half a million dollars to get the chief of the “Rainforest Alliance” to turn up for work, and $415k to feed the account of the president of the Wilderness Society. The two co-directors of Greenpeace USA get about $330,000 a year each." You can read more here . These aren't charities in the traditional sense of the term. They demand your money, your votes and your loyalty. Th...