It’s autumn now but you wouldn’t know it. The shadows are longer now, but temperatures hang into the nineties, off into the foreseeable future. Same up in Tennessee, in San Antonio and in Alice, Texas. I read the forecasts on my phone. Hello, is anyone there?
Time Magazine pulls it all together. Global climate change, continent by continent. North and South America, Europe, Greenland, Arctic and Antarctic. Not just little isolated stories. It’s happening everyplace at once. Worldwide. No, it’s not a plot by a bunch of self-serving American scientists. Hello?
I watched on TV as a little girl lectured our Senators. Are they listening? Why don’t they act? Because they serve a different master, corporate America. Corporate America is making money and that’s all that matters. I remember the squeals when science told them that smoking cigarettes caused lung cancer. Deny, deny! Lead in gasoline, gotta have it, no help for it. All that yellow smog over our cities? Can’t help it, too expensive. And I remember that all-pervasive, final argument – “needs more study.” No, it doesn’t. Sit up and look around. Hello?
Yes, I’m frustrated. Angry. Hello, Senators. Is anyone there?
We are a nation that watched a madman burst into a schoolhouse and kill our children. Yet we cannot take his guns away. Our Constitution says he has the right to do that. Blame it on video games, mental illness. Corporate America is the face of money poured into pockets of those who make our laws. Now why would I think they would save us from ourselves?
Hello, hello, is anyone there?
Dac Crossley
September 25, 2019
“We have met the enemy and he is us.” – Walt Kelly.
The last comment was not by POGO ?
Posted by: Ira Guy | September 28, 2019 at 07:19 PM
It's insane that so many still do not comprehend the climate crisis that we are now facing. And why should anyone oppose closing the background checks loopholes? If you oppose closing the loopholes, then, in my view, you are opposed to any background checks. Sick!
Posted by: Stephen Baird | September 26, 2019 at 12:46 PM
Yep. It is sickening. I am so angry.
Posted by: Liz McGhee | September 26, 2019 at 11:05 AM
And a child shall lead them.
Well not if 'they' don't listen. And look at the number of 'adults' who are making fun of this wise young lady.
I agree, brother. It saddens me.
Posted by: John R Lindermuth | September 26, 2019 at 10:13 AM