Pressure from people needed for change
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Editor,
Sen. Daines, Sec of the Interior Ryan Zinke and GOP candidate Greg Gianforte are being “fossil fuelish” and not the visionaries our precious state of Montana needs. Both Daines and Gianforte tell us “most Montanans are pro-natural development and pro-environment”. And Zinke chimes in with “environmental concerns are valid but the benefits of drilling outweigh concerns.” In other words, we can have our cake and eat it too. No one who has an understanding of how our ecosystems work would make such outlandish statements.
Watching the Climate Action marches convinced me that if change is going to happen, it’s going to come from below—not from the guys up in the suites running things. It has to come from people pressure. It comes back to the very nature of corporate capitalism whose raison d’etre is to make money no matter what the consequences to the ecosystem.
It’s going to require a major rethinking about energy, nurturing the earth and protecting Mother Nature. Corporate capitalism - which these fellows represent - has been waging an unrelenting war on nature in pursuit of accumulating more and more wealth.
Chief Seattle had it right when he said “the white man comes and takes whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother but his enemy and when he has conquered it he moves on.” As one born and raised in Butte, I know whereof he speaks.
Carol Werner
Ronan
