This blog is about climate change, rivers, salmon and steelhead fishing, Pacific Northwest people, and ecopoetry.
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Defeat of Washington Initiative 1631 (Carbon Tax)
At least when Titanic hit the iceberg, lifeboats left about half full. With "a handful of oil companies, including BP, Chevron, and Koch Industries," according to Robinson Meyer at The Atlantic, spending nearly "$31 million" to kill Initiative 1631, lifeboats this time are all being destroyed on our watch. I'm still meeting people who believe "We haven't hit an iceberg. We can keep on as usual. Our boat is fine." I don't know what planet they inhabit, but it's not this one. As Pubali said in his sutras thousands of years ago, "Wake the fuck up!"
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