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Imagine there's a place in our world where the known things go.

A deer haunted forest, crowded with pines and hemlocks,

a carpet of needles beneath your feet, grouse, and the underbrush.

Welcome to the woods outside of the last archive, I'm Jill LaPore.

This episode we're celebrating an anniversary, sort of.

The anniversary of a dream, an alternate history, we're imagining what the world might be like

if 50 years ago, in 1972, Americans had ratified an environmental rights amendment,

an amendment to the U.S. Constitution,

granting not only protection, but representation to the natural world.

This did not happen, but this episode I want to wonder about what the world would be like

if it had happened. I want to think about the road not taken. I want to rekindle a spirit of

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