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3. I am, too. The climate crisis is my Number One issue.
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 12:21 PM
Apr 2019

And pretty much my main and just-about-only issue.

Years ago I was saying that all the jobs in the world won’t mean squat if you’re gagging and wheezing and getting sick just by breathing and ingesting the toxins and pollutants in the environment on the way to work.

All the tax cuts and health care coverage in the world won’t mean squat if you’re choking and dying because of life on a poisoned and overheating planet.

If we disrupt the food chain and decimate the forests and poison the oceans and cover every spare inch with trash and litter and plastic shit and non-biodegradables, all the PAST-the-11th-hour mitigation efforts won’t mean squat.

All the cows in the world won’t save us.

The climate crisis supersedes ALL.

Unless, perhaps, you have another planet that can sustain life as we know it, to which we all can realistically evacuate.

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