Dennis Paulaha

The climate crisis is real. So are the deniers and the thugs paid by the fossil fuel industry to disrupt and destroy positive political actions. When scientists discovered that lead in paint and gasoline was causing brain damage, we outlawed lead in paint and gasoline. We did not say we should spend 80 years easing our way away from adding lead to paint and gasoline. We did not say we should put a tax on paint and gasoline with lead in it in order to reduce consumption a little bit. We did what we knew was the right thing to do. The same was true with DDT and asbestos. When scientists and medical experts understood what DDT and asbestos were doing to the environment and people, we outlawed their use. But that is not what is happening with global warming. When it comes to global warming, politicians are allowing the fossil fuel industry to follow the game plan put together by the tobacco industry. They are letting the science be undermined by special interests that are able to m