Future Fridays: Our Home is on Fire
This past
week President Trump moved us closer to another war in the Middle East. Maybe he has scaled his reactions back to the
point that an all-out war will be avoided, maybe not. I know that the assassination of Gen. Soleimani has moved the state of fear up even
higher than before, for so many people globally.
At the
beginning of his book, Fear: Trump in
the White House*, Bob Woodward quoted Donald Trump saying “Real power is –
I don’t even want to use the word – fear.”
In the time
when we are facing a global crisis of climate change and scientists are saying
we really have only 10 years to reverse the way the atmosphere is heating up,
wasting more time on war is ridiculous.
Jane Fonda*
has been taking to the streets demanding that the U.S. government take action
now regarding climate change.
Summarizing what she said on The Late Show with Steven Colbert,
“We’ve tried the lawful ways to get the government to take action. Now it is time for civil disobedience.”
When our
home is on fire, it is ludicrous to attack others on the block.
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| photo:Noah Berger/AP |
-Kathleen
*“Presidential
candidate Donald J. Trump in an interview with Bob Woodward and Robert Costa on
March 11, 2016, at the Old Post Office Pavilion, Trump International Hotel,
Washington, D.C.”
