To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
What constitutes mass murder in the 21st Century?
Should we consider the below to be of higher concern than putting more gun legislation on the books when it comes to protecting the people?
Acting in a manner that could be called “insanity” we live in a world in which the U.S. defense budget is larger than that of the next dozen or more smaller countries in military spending combined, while 1.5 billion people live on dirt floors and without electric power and can’t get a clean glass of drinking water.
Entrenched special interests whose exclusive concerns are profits and whose true power structure is in fact rooted in fossil fuel interests, hell-bent as they are on digging every truck load of coal and sucking up all the crude oil out of the ground and who employ more lobbyists than any other industry and wantonly befoul the earth’s land, water and atmosphere,
Acting in a manner that could be called “insanity” we live in a world in which the U.S. defense budget is larger than that of the next dozen or more smaller countries in military spending combined, while 1.5 billion people live on dirt floors and without electric power and can’t get a clean glass of drinking water.
Entrenched special interests whose exclusive concerns are profits and whose true power structure is in fact rooted in fossil fuel interests, hell-bent as they are on digging every truck load of coal and sucking up all the crude oil out of the ground and who employ more lobbyists than any other industry and wantonly befoul the earth’s land, water and atmosphere,
Why is this important?
Nero was the Roman emperor who is said to have fiddled while Rome burned. It’s not clear whether the fire was a case of arson or simply an accident, which wasn’t unusual for that day, but the entire word is burning today (or at least getting quite a bit warmer) and it isn’t any accident.
We might think of Nero having “fiddled while Rome burned” when we contemplate what we are doing today by adding greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere. Collectively, we carry on business as usual while consuming an ever-increasing amount of fossil-fuels and other finite resources, shrugging our shoulders at the damage that now rather obviously derives from our irresponsible ways.
We might think of Nero having “fiddled while Rome burned” when we contemplate what we are doing today by adding greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere. Collectively, we carry on business as usual while consuming an ever-increasing amount of fossil-fuels and other finite resources, shrugging our shoulders at the damage that now rather obviously derives from our irresponsible ways.