Daily Topics - Thursday July 11th, 2013
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If the right would stop their obstructionist ways, we could unite in a massive ten year electrical revolution involving building solar collectors and wind farms from our seas to our rooftop turbine generators and solar panels. If this was done with the determination to STOP BURNING 95% of the fossil fuels used to support our energy grid, we would be well on our way to solving many of our national dilemmas. A National Will to achieve this goal is just as possible today as it was in past great leaps we have taken as a nation. In those days the corporations thought it important to help the USA in time of great danger. Today they make PROFIT the only important consideration. If, we the people, FORCE,our yet to be elected officials, to make this ENVIRONMENTAL PLANETARY EMERGENCY the number one issue in Congress, the corporations will have lost their power.
PEOPLE, do not waver in this critical time, stay involved, stop complaining about the lack of government officials who don't fix the problem and stop using that as an excuse to not be involved. THIS IS AMERICA's STRENGTH- A United American populace working for the good of humanity- not hangers on-waiting for things to get better.
Work to get people elected who will take money out of politics and put that money to use . REDESIGN, rebuild, totally remake our electrical distribution while removing fossil fuels from the equation.
TO DO THIS WE MUST STOP ALLOWING OUR ELITES TO DIVIDE THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. They use massive misinformation to keep the people divided over numerous single issues we all are familiar with. From guns to drugs to war,to reproductive rights, to sexual orientation. WE ALLOW THIS TO CONTINUE and we must learn to live with these differences in order to deal with the threat to civilization looming in the shadow of climate change. This cannot be ignored or we perish. We must call on the American People to live up to their heritage and take these courageous steps to turn this climate crisis around. HISTORY WILL JUDGE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ON THE OUTCOME OF THIS ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS- no matter which way it goes.