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