a friendly note from the Amomancer

Sometimes you have to put aside your own issues for the larger benefit. I have spent my life trying to do right by people, often sacrificing my time, energy, sanity and wealth in an attempt to do the right thing.

Now, I'm putting aside my personal issues for a brief time to raise some very important issues. Well, one issue. Global warming.

Whether or not you have found it in you to believe in it prior to now, you don't have much choice. The existence of a skeptic does not change the temperature, the damage that we have wrought and brought and caught ourselves up in for the sake of commerce and folly.

Go see the movie "An Inconvenient Truth". Go to their website at www.climatecrisis.net and investigate the painful truth, that we must address this issue. It may already be too late to stop it, but we may be able to prepare for it.

Argue all you want about your priorities, but all of the things you want for yourself are meaningless in a dead world. They won't be here for you, you won't be here to enjoy them, and it is the coming generations who will have to suffer while our greed, avarice and ignorance has damned them.

Get off your ass and get involved. I, for one, will not support a candidate for public office, from this point forward, who does not accept the reality of global warming and does not embrace the necessity and urgency of our actions. I ask you to take that pledge with me.

Find out which of your state and federal officials running this fall is concerned enough to act, concerned enough about something other than loyalty to their party (which has no standing under the US Constitution) and backing or attacking a lame duck Pretendent in the White House.

Vote. For sanity. For survival.