To The Editor,
I don’t trust politicians, I don’t trust some farmers. I don’t trust mechanics and I just don’t trust some people.
The people I do trust are scientists. Not the ones in pharmaceuticals but the scientists who study the planet and the weather. When all the scientists around the world all agree that the two main reasons for climate change are pollution and deforestation and that if we don’t do something the results will be catastrophic–these things I believe.
Our plastics are a major contributor to our pollution problem. When I was working at a job I saw porches made of synthetic planks. We can go to the moon, send a rover to Mars, and you’re going to tell me we can’t come up with an idea to recycle all our plastics into alternate building materials with fire retardants built in?
Not only would we clean up our plastics problem, we would also have a chance to spare the trees of total destruction and allow them to achieve what they’ve been doing for centuries, keeping us and the planet alive.
It’ll never happen. Why, you ask? Because the government won’t let it happen and because the powerful lumber companies don’t want to loosen their death grip on the future.
The powerful corporations of lumber are the puppet masters and our government are merely puppets to these people and other corporations who don’t want to save the planet, who don’t want the people to survive and who don’t want our children to have a future. It’s all about the money, the markets and the projects.
People like you and I are merely disposable pawns in their world of affluence and wealth.
Instead of recycling, we simply relocate our unwanted plastics and other objects we don’t want to third world countries who have nothing. Nothing but mountains and mountains of trash from all around the world and those citizens try to eke out a living by sorting through it all.
Until we learn to respect this planet and work with it, we will achieve nothing, and in this near future our children will face homelessness, hunger and despair because we didn’t do our part to try and save their world.
As long as we continue to underestimate the power of climate change, social media and AI and prefer to live in a virtual world rather than the real world, our time in this world is merely sharing a mental, emotional and physical addiction to social media and the electronic highway. I prefer to call it Mental Fentanyl, our world’s drug of choice, which holds no future.
