the destruction of our life on earth…business as usual
Look at this!!!! This is what we are likely going to have to look at if the MAGA cult manage to win this election….or we don’t get our nation to stand for the right thing. Sadly, although Biden has tried to do something about this atrocerity, the Congress has drug its heels and still insists on fossil fuel.
Many on the right say that we can’t afford to convert to clean energy, but it is these persons’ and my own that we can not afford not to. Will it cause some problems in the beginning? Maybe, but once we tighten our belt and make the transfer, we will be not only healthier but also safer from the many illnesses caused by fossil fuel.
Hitting the streets in protest is not only legal but at this point REQUIRED to save this planet’s resources and beauty for the future. This protest is taking place in New York City with the people coming from all over to protest outside the leading financial supporter of the continued destruction of our envirnment and the horrors of climate change now going on. The bank is none other that Citibank.
It will not surpries many of you to note that many of these protestors are from the states of Louisiana and Texas. The coast of both states is being destroyed by the “pump baby pump” attitude of the oil industry in the Southern part of these two states. Horrible!!!!! Not only are we losing land, we are being exposed to horrible pollution.
And guess where the gas pump has the higher prices in Louisana. If you guessed closest to the oil fields, right there by the factories that are processing the gas. Yes, the closer to the oil field you live, the more you pay at the pump. That is not only a pollution problem, but also a economic attack on the very people (often in poverty) in our area.
This video is from Youtube and is an interview with a South Africian that expresses that the people on the front line are very often the people in nations like their nation and others that are on the edge of technological development. Those countries are often on the front line on the fight for clean air. Also, as he points out, some leaders talk the good talk but are slow about delivery.
The next link is directly from DemocratyNow, and hopefully that video will be on youtube tomorrow but it isn’t currently. But here it is:
So far, my support for this post is from DemocracyNow, an alternative, non-mainstream media that often carries reports that the New York Times and ABC media don’t carry. I can get a different take on Gaza, for example, by going there and often do. But in this case, some other media has covered the issue so here are some more links.
ABC reported with a fairly factual report and gave some quotes from the demonstrators own words. They, of course, also pointed out that the police were going to arrest the protestors…which is also true.
AP gives us an article about the fact that this is 6 years after Greta Thunberg, who climate activists, of course I am at heart, consider a top warrier for this issue walked out of school in Sweden, this protest is in large part led by young people. Once again, I applaud our young people in this country for not bowing to corporatists’ abuse of our envirnment silently, but protesting and even going to jail if called on to do so, in efforts to save the envirnment for future generations.
