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Joe Manchin is sacrificing our planet to save West Virginia: And Chuck Schumer doesn’t seem to care
Why are Democrats behaving as if the climate change problem can be negotiated away? If the planet is on fire, how will jobs in coal save West Virginia?
Where is the plan to convert jobs in coal to renewable energy jobs? Why is nobody designing a future for West Virginia and Texas that does not require the inhabitants of those states to continue to depend on the fossil fuel industry to survive?
Why do we keep having the same inane conversation over and over, never approximating a solution to the single biggest problem facing all of us? Where are the brilliant scientists and environmentalists when we need them?
Yes, money is part of it. Manchin isn’t the only person in the Senate or House to take money from the fossil fuel industry or earn dividends from stock in oil, gas, and coal companies. But how can members of Congress believe that protecting those interests is more important than saving our planet?
I guess they don’t care about the future because they’ll all be dead anyway.
But what about their children and grandchildren? Who do they think will suffer if we fail to deal with climate change now? Do they believe money will save their progeny? It won’t. Mother Nature doesn’t…
