Submitted to Shelton Blog by Connie Simpson Mason County Progressive
IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE
Of the 40,177 species assessed in 2006 by the World Conservation Union, 16,119 were listed as threatened with extinction. The previous five great extinctions took place over centuries...this one is happening in the blink of an eye.
We are selling the birthright of our descendants for things like electrical power produced locally at great cost to the environment, exported to California for the greatest profit; and shoddy goods produced from cheap human labor abroad, imported via fossil fuel burning tankers and trucks to a big chain store near you.
We in the U.S. are complicit in our use of more than our fair share of the planet’s resources, thereby contributing to human misery, dangerous degradation of our planet and it’s resources, and...the Sixth Great Extinction.
We do not need, nor will Mason County profit from converting woody biomass, or any other incinerated fuel, to power. For your health: Oppose Biomass.
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Grandmothers Against Pollution
promoting a healthy planetary environment
in which to leave our grandchildren
and other endangered species
promoting a healthy planetary environment
in which to leave our grandchildren
and other endangered species
It's sad to think of our grandchildren as an endangered species, but pretty right on nonetheless.
ReplyDeleteAs a grandmother myself, I would love to join Grandmotehrs Against Pollution. What are the requirements for membership (besides being a grandmother)?
As a follow-up to my own comment, I am more bothered than I would have believed - only a day later - as I consider the idea that my granddaughter, all 3 years and 10 months of her, is an endangered species. I am literally sick to my stomach because this is a real possibility!
ReplyDeleteI believe that only a grandmother can be fiercer than a mother in defending her children.
I further believe it is high time that we grandmothers band together to present a united front to move the dialogue against biomassacre forward, from the perspective of grandmothers (and grandfathers too).
I suggest letters to the editor signed by the individual grandmother (or grandfather), and note that the author is a member of Grandmothers Against Pollution. Maybe it ought to be grandparents...? Grandpas can be pretty fierce in their desire to protect.
Letters to the Bremerton Sun, to help bring grandmothers north of the Mason-Benson line and out Union-way into our group; letters to the Olympian, where the grandmothers ought not to become complacent because of a 12 month moritorium in their county -- it won't stop Grays Harbor County and Mason County from sharing their pollutants with Thurston County, and to the Journal, if they will print them.
We need grandparents to unite in great numbers and tell the politicians of this county, state and country, that our grandchildren are not going extinct on our watch.
Let's get firece grandparents.
As I look at a picture of my granddaughter grinning at the camera, believing she lives in a safe world, and that her parents and her grandparents will keep her safe, I am more determined than ever to make sure she has a safe world to live in, which includes clean air and clean water.
Join me, grandparents, in a big shout out to the powers that be that to bring this harm to our grandchildren is the last straw; that it is more than we can bear; and that we will resist with greater vigor than ever the proposed biomassacre of Mason County and the State of Washington.
Lots to do before the end of the year, keep it light!