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Wednesday, January 2, 2019

“There is a cost to inactivity”

“There is a cost to inactivity”

For well over a century now humankind has been conscious of pollution and its affect of humans, animals and marine life and periodically we have enacted regulations and created new machinery that would reduce or alleviate the terminal affects of inhaling or ingesting toxins.

The debates and arguments were straight forward while the failure to act were obvious, people were dying from lead poisoning, toxic gases were killing miners and industrial dust pollution was being inhaled or ingested causing a variety of lung diseases. The cause and effect were obvious.

The naysayers were the usual ones, the corporations, the anti-tax groups or the politicians who feared taxation however they were easily defeated by the obviousness of the cause and effect. We could drop an infected lung on their desk. Today’s argument about greenhouse gases on global warming appear to be less tangible to the ill informed and easier to argue against by certain political groups who use cost to the public as a means of defeating  the issue.

Raising the alarm on long term effect doesn’t appear to be working yet there are obvious and immediate affects that are extremely alarming to those of us who understand that there has been a rise in severe weather patterns, tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires and rain storms causing floods as well as severe winds that come out of nowhere.

Conservatives and populists argue against one of the most effective taxes to combat these extreme weather patterns while ignoring the real cost to the taxpayer of rising insurance claims, government assistance programs and property loss.

R. Hawkins.  

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