Our technology is shameful. In full view it is immoral. We have harnessed space travel to abandon Earth, but, we have not harnessed the wind and sun to make Earth a place we would rather stay than leave. The USA should be ashamed of it's ambitions without investing in the well being of our children and their Earth.
I am not concerned about the EPA under the leadership of Secretary Gina McCarthy. However, Gina McCarthy, like most of the Obama Cabinet is far to polite and doesn't come forward to blame Congress for the neglect of decades. Congress has neglected not only the dangerous of the mines in the western USA, it has neglected the needs and environmental safety of future generations. She needs to make it clear the EPA has worked diligently to be sure the USA was providing much overdue demands for lower pollution of greenhouse gases.
Morality.
It gets lost in our political dialogue. The Republicans define morality as the age of a fetus and not the fact the world it will be born into will be one of heat, suffering and droughts. This with a threat to drinking water and sustainable agriculture that is absent of dangerous GMO manipulation. The Republicans stop at religion to define morality. Pope Francis has made it clear morality defines the assets left to the next three generations to come.
Morality is an investment in more than one's soul, it is an investment to insure all Americans will inherit a world better than the one left by aging Americans. It isn't just jobs that insure each generation of Americans will do better than the one before it, it is also the world in which we live that has to be better for each subsequent generations of Americans.
We need to start measuring the improvements left to the next generation of Americans. We need to measure it each year, each month, each President, each Congress and each political leader.
How much closer has each day put us closer to moral and sustaining goals?
Pope Francis clearly states the responsibility of each generation is to the next. He clearly states morality exceeds the simple birth of a child, but, the world in which that child is born into.
If the USA is to expect the global community to clean up the troposphere and stop pollution of greenhouse gases, then it has to set the example and demand others to match our expectations. And for other countries already moving into the 'safe zone' environmentally, it would be appropriate to remind the USA of it's responsibilities as well.
The global community of people have to set the expectations for their governments and demand people to lead in the way a moral world would take it.
I am not concerned about the EPA under the leadership of Secretary Gina McCarthy. However, Gina McCarthy, like most of the Obama Cabinet is far to polite and doesn't come forward to blame Congress for the neglect of decades. Congress has neglected not only the dangerous of the mines in the western USA, it has neglected the needs and environmental safety of future generations. She needs to make it clear the EPA has worked diligently to be sure the USA was providing much overdue demands for lower pollution of greenhouse gases.
Morality.
It gets lost in our political dialogue. The Republicans define morality as the age of a fetus and not the fact the world it will be born into will be one of heat, suffering and droughts. This with a threat to drinking water and sustainable agriculture that is absent of dangerous GMO manipulation. The Republicans stop at religion to define morality. Pope Francis has made it clear morality defines the assets left to the next three generations to come.
Morality is an investment in more than one's soul, it is an investment to insure all Americans will inherit a world better than the one left by aging Americans. It isn't just jobs that insure each generation of Americans will do better than the one before it, it is also the world in which we live that has to be better for each subsequent generations of Americans.
We need to start measuring the improvements left to the next generation of Americans. We need to measure it each year, each month, each President, each Congress and each political leader.
How much closer has each day put us closer to moral and sustaining goals?
Pope Francis clearly states the responsibility of each generation is to the next. He clearly states morality exceeds the simple birth of a child, but, the world in which that child is born into.
If the USA is to expect the global community to clean up the troposphere and stop pollution of greenhouse gases, then it has to set the example and demand others to match our expectations. And for other countries already moving into the 'safe zone' environmentally, it would be appropriate to remind the USA of it's responsibilities as well.
The global community of people have to set the expectations for their governments and demand people to lead in the way a moral world would take it.
