I’d like to draw attention to the climate rally planned for Friday, Sept. 20 at noon in Meetinghouse Park.
Organized by students, the rally joins others around the world seeking to focus attention on the climate crisis and the dire outlook for the future livability of the world they are inheriting.
This is an opportunity to express your support for their efforts and offer some assurance that the older generation is willing to fight for the future along with them!
Cynthia Stancioff
Chesterville
“How anyone could say that it’s a bad idea to clean up not only the planet, but the things we do everyday, is beyond my comprehension and I for one would be embarrassed to be so short sighted.”
But we are, and we have! The US is VERY clean, relatively speaking, and is ALWAYS moving forward! Now the message is extreme….to become a socialist nation, lose our individual freedom. LISTEN to these people, Jon! Mass hysteria….beware of authoritarian mass movements…the more we progress, the more control they DEMAND.
We have an EPA, DEP, a process around building (env. impact etc). We have governments that can affect state transportation (change the fleet to nat gas, etc). They CANNOT dictate what we do on our property, generally speaking (such as using a wood stove). They WANT to do this, though. At what point will it end? When you go to sell your home, and they make you buy a new $10,000 furnace before you can? People should pay more attention to the hammers and sickles present at these rallies….this is simply another way to tax the crap out of you (most of which will be wasted) and take your freedom. Yet MORE ‘redistribution’….and the poor will pay the heaviest price. And I thought home ownership was the Left’s keystone…not anymore!
This is politics, NOT ‘environmentalism’. Why does that seem to be hard for ppl to see? The message is a fine one – but the politics is horrid, authoritarian, and has been seen before, much to citizens of other nations detriment. The more we do, or agree to, the more freedom we’ll lose, and new demands will ALWAYS be made. We’ve seen this happening for decades now. The ‘slow creep’ is now a grab.
Rather than continuing to talk in roundabout dramatic terms….how about:
“WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM US THAT WE’RE NOT DOING NOW?”
Please be extremely specific.