What Is This Constant Argument That Doing the Right Thing Will Put People Out of Work?

Disclaimer: I try to see both sides of issues, but I’m

angry and this article is angry and I apologize for that.

My god, you hear it on every issue:

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Stopping fracking

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Shutting down oil wells

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Plastic single-use bottles

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Electric cars

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Mining

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Agricultural pollution

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Over-fishing

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Over-logging, and on and on.

As if it was a choice. As if simply not thinking

about how the planet and all its animals are disappearing as we trudge off to

the mall is going to solve itself.

Not to put too sharp an edge on it

folks, but already—right now—if we were to immediately

stop fucking up the planet, it’s already too late.

Too late to survive? Probably not, but already way too

late to continue to exist on the planet as we have always known it.

Lions and tigers and bears? Gone.

Most of the fish in the sea? Gone. Life in Miami, Seattle, New York, Los

Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and most of the great cities throughout the

world that are oceanside (think Venice)? Not gone, but unrecognizable

and unlivable as we knew them.

Th…