Monday, November 23, 2009

If only gay sex caused climate change (instead of dapper gents like this)

That dapper gent is Salem's own M. Lee Pelton, President of Willamette University and one of about a dozen Oregonians who are most responsible for
  • creating hundreds of millions of climate refugees,
  • melting the polar ice sheets,
  • eliminating glaciers we depend on for drinking water,
  • acidifying the oceans, destroying the ocean food chain,
  • driving species extinction on a historic scale,
  • further impoverishing the already impoverished, and
  • causing Biblical-scale droughts, fires, and floods.
That's because Pelton and his accomplices on the PGE Board continue to imagine that "cheap" electricity from the Boardman coal plant -- Oregon's single largest polluter and greenhouse gas emitter -- is more important than a livable planet. Just as the banker-gangster class drove the global financial system into the ditch by failing to understand risk and pursuing profits today without a care for tomorrow, utilities like Pelton's PGE are doing exactly the same: misunderstanding and minimizing the risks for tomorrow to pursue higher profits today.

"If only gay sex caused global warming" instead of handsome, dapper gents like Pelton.

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