The 350.org climate-change actions recently showed that millions of people care about what we are doing to the atmosphere of our planet. Let us now find spokespeople who link the economic downturn to changing to a sustainable-energy-use economy. Let us not insist on hanging on longer and longer to an economy imploding from corrupt financial leadership. Let us demand that we stop paying a huge chunk of our gross domestic product to the Middle East nations for their oil, and another huge chunk for defense to protect it.
We will not attain 350 parts per million if we do not start working on it. So far our efforts are trivial.
The next thing President Obama should take on is stimulating a solar and wind economy. We can mobilize the political pressure our president needs to move us in the direction of survival.
The more of us who drag our feet on preventing climate change, the more likely it will be that the land will dry up that will be needed to grow the food for the expected 9 billion to 11 billion people on earth when the world’s population size levels out, resulting in widespread famine, disease and death.
Ronald J. Martin
Fresno
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