We'd Rather Grab a Profit Than Save Ourselves

There is no time to waste where climate change is concerned. Reducing its impact on the biosphere has to come from changes NOW. Yet conservatively-controlled government and profit-mad corporations make only token efforts at green energy development to appease the mildly concerned majority, with lush commercials and magazine ads inflating the impression of their feeble efforts at sustainable energy reform. Fracturing our shale gas deposits with millions of gallons of our public water, lacing it with catalytic carcinogenic chemicals (the disclosure of which is forbidden by law and is exempted from regulation by the Clean Water Act) is a violation of the human right to safe, clean drinking water, but the oil and gas companies pay their political cronies millions in campaign contributions and leave poisoned unsellable private properties in their wake when they pull up their parasitic derricks. And then you have people like former president Clinton sagely pronouncing that this practice of non-renewable energy extraction is the answer to our long-term employment problems?! Really? An inherently boom-bust form of employment is the salvation of our national economy? What comes next when the gas is all gone? When will it be time for engaging energies that are truly effective and liberating but just aren't amenable to the profit-making social pathology, such as geothermal? Who says our energy must be a commodity? Who says our medical care must be a commodity? Why can't these be non-profit services employing its servitors at a decent middle class station of life to perform morally worthy contributions to the quality of life and a higher standard of civilization? Must every speck of dirt be justified on the basis of its potential ability or failure to generate fantastic riches to satisfy the greed of the fractional few? Must the survival of life on this planet be balanced on the knife-edge of our primitive need to make boodles of money on what generates power for our so-called civilization? When our poor Earth starts to resemble the planet Venus, what other world are these human parasites going to jump to? Is there an alien planet with a monetary system where they can even spend the trillions they've made from stealing away the time and effort we could have used to save the Earth?