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Mischa Geracoulis's avatar

It is unthinkable to readers of The Planet that fossil fuel corporate leaders are capable of prizing their own pockets, profits, and power over LIFE. I normally avoid making generalizations about people I do not know, preferring to imagine that we are more similar than different, and that we can compromise in the best interest of everyone. In this case, the evidence is lacking. That fossil fuel corps and governments keep relentlessly doing what they are doing, I must speculate that they are addicted to self-interests, power, and wealth. Industries and lifestyles are built on addiction, rewarding those who fuel (bad pun) their addictions. This is why, along with environmental justice, we must prioritize democracy and the power of citizens to hold governments accountable.

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Sharon Boyd's avatar

Que lastima. I feel the mindset of fossil fuel/tax incentives for large users is the same thinking as "8 men have as much wealth as 3.5 billion people, but sure, the single mother on welfare is the problem." And this greed in my mind is about short-term interests over the welfare of this planet.

This quote sums it up for me: We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming or protect fossil fuel CEO's. Not both. Do the Math.

Yet as the sun sets in the Sonoran Desert, there is a hope of Fall in the air as I listen to my favorite playlist. Jackson's lyrics: "While the sand slipped through the opening and their hands reached for the golden ring, with their hearts they turned to each other's hearts for refuge. In the troubled years that came before the deluge."

Music can cross every barrier of time, space and language. It gives us a shelter from the storm just as the stunning desert sunset or the comfort of your island home. Thank you for protecting all of it.

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