OPEN LETTER TO CITIZENS, ELECTED & APPOINTED OFFICIALS
We are in crisis, but too many still deny it. The split between rich and poor is toxic. Why are they not part of our democratic community? Most folks have specific concerns: jobs, health, housing, security, educational and recreational resources (a walk in a safe healthy park). We want clean air and water under public ownership and an end to government that favors private speculators, profiteers and banksters over human and civil rights.
Yet, everything is overshadowed - employment, diversity, all of it - by the climate catastrophe. No longer "impending," the change seen in Houston and all over the Earth fatally threatens our children and grandchildren. There may be no human generation after them. The science is irrefutable and nearly unanimous - only the Koch brothers, Exxon, POTUS 45 and End Timers are withstanding.
The prime question is, where are we getting water for Earth's runaway human population growth? We are one good drought away from disaster, and drought is inevitable. Water is the game changer. Water is a human right. Bottom line: the Earth is running out. Depletion of global groundwater resources due to global warming and growing human demand has caused world water supply to drop to dangerous levels and changed distribution of available freshwater. Global population without access to potable water will likely increase. We need to get our heads together on how we manage it, because we’re running out. Capiche? https://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/16/nasa-earth-running-out-water
What are local, regional, state and national governments doing collectively to cope with climate change? Are they involving citizens in their own survival? Trump wants to bury his head and End-timers look forward to Apocalypse. We knew this was coming. Jonathan Weiner, "The Next One Hundred Years," wrote in 1990: "The question troubles even those who try to ignore the headlines, and worry only about whether the old garage is sagging or the roof is leaking or the mortgage is due. Whether we look up at the sky or not, the question mark curls above our roofs and makes a mockery of our hopes. If your Earth is falling apart, there go your plans for summer vacation. As Henry David Thoreau said, 'What good is a house if you don't have a decent planet to put it on?'"
We were twenty-seven years away from Harvey in 1990. What and how we do things as We, the People, "one nation, indivisible," today, in order to work together to save ourselves is the only issue. We need everyone to pitch in to help save life as we would like to continue to know it. Well, most of us. Don't we?
Corporations out of government: www.movetoamend.org
Progressive action: moveon.org