A product of publik skools I suspect:
“The American lifestyle affords our citizens an incredible quality of life. However, our lifestyle is destroying the environment of our country. The decimation of the environment is creating a massive burden for future generations.
“Corporations are heading the destruction of our environment by shamelessly overharvesting resources. This has been a problem for decades. For example, this phenomenon is brilliantly portrayed in the decades old classic “The Lorax”.
“Water sheds around the country, especially in agricultural areas, are being depleted. Fresh water is being polluted from farming and oil drilling operations. Consumer culture is creating thousands of tons of unnecessary plastic waste and electronic waste, and recycling to help slow this down is almost non-existent.
“Urban sprawl creates inefficient cities which unnecessarily destroys millions of acres of land. We even use god knows how many trees worth of paper towels just wipe water off our hands.
“Everything I have seen and heard in my short life has led me to believe that the average American isn’t willing to change their lifestyle, even if the changes only cause a slight inconvenience.
“The government is unwilling to tackle these issues beyond empty promises since they are owned by corporations.”
Apparently he never travelled to India, China, Pakistan, Indonesta et al. The US environment is one of the cleanest on the planet. With of course the exceptions like San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Sounds like any progressive dem or green new deal advocate.
Anyone who is over 60 years old and traveled a little, surely must be aware that things on the earth are not changing for the better. Water pollution and scarcities are real and becoming more common problems. There are many sensible things that can be done to help our environment without sacrificing a reasonable level of comfort. I have been worried for years that using up all our coal and oil in the next hundred years will leave none for our descendants to use to produce the many industrially useful products that are made from them. When 14, I wrote a school paper on all the many uses for coal besides heating. I was amazed, now I am worried. The other day I met a young man who graduated from my University fifty years later. He remarked on a major flood that filled many of the buildings along the river. We did not have that level of flooding when I was there. Also, the winters there are now much warmer than when I attended.
The current Greed Capitalism frightens me. It is as if the richest, consciously or unconsciously, have decided, there will be no tomorrow, if I fill myself with enough wealth, I will be safe as will MY children. Fifty years ago I went to college summers in Mexico. I thought it was a shame that the comfortable had to live behind 10 foot walls paved with broke glass shards or barbed wire to be safe. That is the society we are headed for. Is that how you want to live? Developers are overbuilding higher end dwellings in many urban areas. They have the big bucks to buy politicians. Then the restaurants, hotels, hospitals, schools and emergency services wonder why they are severely understaffed when a major weather even makes it impossible for their workers who live 20 miles away where it is cheaper to actually get to work. It will only get worse.
Education for women has a definite effect on reducing population in third world countries. When you don’t need 5 children to have two live to be old enough to care for your old age, you don’t have so many. I had an interesting discussion with a Tibetan refugee in the US about the Chinese ONE CHILD policy. We both agreed it was an important goal in such an overpopulated country. She brought up a number of ways in which they could have achieved much of this goal without the terrible methods they used to do it. I plan to talk with her again and get hers written down. My own contribution was to give a post-menopausal woman who only had 2 or fewer children a big bonus payment at age 60. I also thought of my own pattern of two children at age 32 and 35, and their two children also around the same ages. So here is a slogan to work with — THIRTY + TWO Can Save Our Planet.
Did the perp have a steel drinking straw on him too ???
That could easily have come from AOC’s twitter feed. Yet he’s “right-wing.”