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Time to Face the Music [1]
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Date: 2023-09-27
The time has arrived when we Americans must face the music, and Nature plays its symphony, “Requiem.” Droughts, floods, fires, blizzards, hurricanes, tornados, and heat waves accompany her elegy.
SUV & pickup truck drivers, coal burners, industry polluters, et al., it is time for you to face the music. Climate Change hovers over the Point of No Return, and your gas-guzzling vehicles push it over the edge.
Big-vehicle driving, industrial and energy coal burning, coal fracking, and methane releases cause Climate Change. Do you want to push Climate Change over the edge and leave your children with a Hell on Earth?
If our vehicles fail to average 40 mph on the road and 30 mph in town, the time has arrived to trade them in for high-mileage ones, EVs or hybrid vehicles.
Climate Change will only worsen, but we Americans lint in the best nation to slow climate change.
Can I, one guy or gal, make an impact? We can if we sacrifice the status quo.
If we don’t change, what will happen? Life as Americans know it will end: Climate disaster refugees will overwhelm our boarders, coastlines will disappear, floods and fires will destroy croplands and wildlands, disasters will bankrupt governments, and heatwaves will cripple our strength and kill our elderly and infants.
Reducing Climate Change seems akin to emptying the ocean with a teacup, so many of us do not see how an individual effort, e.g., trading our low-mileage vehicle in for an environmentally friendly one, can make a difference.
The slowing of climate change will happen when our hundred-million teacups dip into the ocean; slowing Climate Change is an effort long past due and must begin now.
If we gas guzzling vehicle owners trade now for high-milage vehicles, we can secure a better deal than waiting until our vehicles become obsolete and valueless, which will eventually happen.
The Biden administration encourages EV ownership by offering incentives and building nationwide charging stations. Still, the administration must do more to ease the financial strain of our switching to high-milage vehicles by increasing the incentives.
The aforementioned is a tough decision, but when the going gets tough, Americans must show their toughness.
Chuck Fair, view my books on Amazon.
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