Clean air and clean water; therefore, I am for dispensing with outdated, environmentally hazardous materials, fuels, processes; WHATEVER THE COST.
After all, we need to breath before we can do anything else. We need clean water to drink before we need food to eat and we need clean water to grow healthy food.
So, I am for dispensing with coal, oil and gas as our primary fuels. We now have the means, through solar and wind energy, to power the country. Investing in those infrastructures is smarter than continuing to support the former. Nuclear fusion is still a hope in the back of my mind.
Yes, jobs in outdated industries will be lost but programs have been in place and funded for job training and other support during this transition, created by people who actually knew something.
The current administration who is both painfully ignorant and pathologically paranoid about what has already been done and is in the process of dismantling all the work that more intelligent, more informed and saner people have done.
Those who cannot see past their own noses, whose egocentric, selfish interests don't go far from their own tiny lives will forever be the road blocks to progress and far-reaching efforts for the greater good. That includes those in the new administration and those ignoramuses who have supported them.
Our planet cannot afford the stupidity of the current administration.
I have no answers for how to resist this stupidity. We may have to weather the storm and be prepared to take back what's needed to move ahead.
There are days when I worry about how far this wreckless idiocy will go and the resistance in response.
Those who refuse to understand what's at stake, those who refuse to sacrifice their tiny pleasures for the health of the place where they live are not worth thinking about. Those of us who do see the issues and the solutions must keep working toward a saner, healthier future which will be of benefit to them regardless if they figure it out or not.
I often feel impotent lately. I'm just an ordinary, little person. But, I will do everything I can to refuse to participate in or support what is clearly against the environment and my best future. I will continue to communicate with anyone and everyone who I think can make a difference. I will continue to make decisions with the future in mind. I will do what I can to spend my money wisely in this regard.
We are living in dark and troubling times. Stupidity and ignorance must not prevail.
