The Supreme Court, not content with endangering the lives and status of women and endangering many of the rest of us with gun violence, now decides to increase the peril for the entire planet with its bizarre ruling against environmental protection.
Coal mine polluters (e.g. West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin) and coal plant polluters are invited to continue poisoning the atmosphere and increasing carbon emissions, guaranteeing a global temperature rise of over 4 degrees Fahrenheit. With temperatures at record highs at both poles, including some 20 degrees higher than the previous record at the South Pole (yes, more than 20, not a typo), heat waves plaguing the American Southwest, vast swathes of India and Europe, they have concluded short-term profits are more important than the survival of a significant portion of human life on the planet and the mass extinction of thousands of species.
Someone should turn off their air conditioners and subject them to the same misery millions already endure. But wait, those are poor people, as are the majority of gun violence victims, as will be many of the sufferers from the loss of reproductive choice.
It won’t disturb the rich, over-privileged six of the court or their benefactors. At least not for a few more years!
Rev. Donald J. Rudalevige
Cape Elizabeth
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