Lots of suggestions online today on how individuals can do their part to preserve our planet.
Reduce/eliminate consumption of plastic bags. Take shorter showers and don't leave the water running while brushing teeth. Turn the old thermostat down during the winter and up during the summer.
These suggestions are not bad ideas. None of them seem to apply to what our institutions could/should be doing.
Stop mountaintop removal and the conversion of pure mountain springs into gobs of poisonous slurry.
Apply conscientious safety precautions to avoid turning vast swathes of the Gulf of Mexico into a tar pit.
Stop industrial agriculture's poisoning of waterways and acceleration of soil erosion.
Stop polluting the air we breath with toxic emissions.
Beef up enforcement against the slip shod maintenance of aging nuclear power plants.
Apply effective disciplinary measures, including charter suspension or removal, against corporate bad actors.
Abandon corporate welfare for big energy companies and initiate substantive support for the development of green power industries.
Admittedly just a beginning. But hey, we have to start somewhere.
Here's what I think...
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