Under the mantra of “jobs” “revenue” and “energy independence”, the profit-at-all-costs fossil-fuel industry has moved from exploiting “sacrifice zones” to now everything remaining. Citizens want and need to hear our elected and appointed leaders speak publicly about the seriousness of this issue and stop echoing the profiting fossil-fuel industry’s well-funded denial. Our current leadership must abide by the Constitution which states that government is instituted for the benefit, security, and protection of the people — not for industry! Future generations will not accept that the current leadership “did the best they could” or “didn’t know better,” but rather recognize that they had no backbone to buck industry’s profit-driven exploitation, and were too mesmerized by industries well-funded siren songs to recognize the grave realities that need to be addressed.
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