Washington

I feel so much rage. The petroleum industry has bribed and bought off our government officials, poured huge sums of money into blocking legislation and creating ads to lie outright to the public about how much they "care" for our Earth.
They only care about how much money they can extract before everything collapses. Just like the big Tobacco companies, they have lied repeatedly about the harm that they are causing.
I have watched for years, as we get less rain in the valley and less snow in the mountains. About 35 years ago I began noticing increasing amounts of dead branches in our evergreen trees and more and more small trees dying and falling because their roots aren't extensive enough to hold them in the ground. The path of the jet stream seems to have split during the winter months, with the majority of the precipitation going either north or south of here.
We have needed better legislation and more money poured into research to help us kick our addiction to fossil fuels for years, but instead, money in politics has held the whip hand. Aided and abetted by the mainstream corporate owned McGreedia who refuse to tell the truth.