Firstly, a changing climate, much like a changing society, is a turbulent state to be in. Americans will be threatened by increasingly violent hurricanes, floods, and wildfires and the situation will become chaotic as events become hard to predict well enough in adbance to make adequate preparations for the protection of the people. Secondly, we will lose our health and our natural wealth without more regulations. The skies over large cities will remain smoggy, rivers and watersheds will also become more polluted, and the health of the avergae American will deteriorate. More of our forests and natural wonders will be irreparably damaged as plant diseases flourish, as disasters level the environment, and as the atmosphere becomes less healthy.
Some people will argue that we benefit from fewer regulations and freer corporations, but to that premise I ask, in what world would you rather live? One where health is at the center of community or one where wealth and the gain of one person or organization lies above the well-being of nature and man. The second world is an affront to the very notion of God and the cause of Civilization. Corporations have repeatedly proven they cannot be trusted to steward the environment or the health of the community when it is also cheaper to ignore those responsibilities. Between oil corporations like BP and Exxon and chemical conglomerates like DuPont, there is little evidence to back a claim stating that corporations can effectuate self-control.
Economic development is no good excuse either. Ask any man off the street if he would prefer a state government bulldozed a National Park to create a comercial zone and there is a snowball’s chance in Hell he wojld say yes. Similarly, because a local coal mine or other business exists in an area of natural abundance but provides a job boon to a community does not mean it ahould go on existing. States such as West Virginia would better benefit their people by funding green energy projects, universities, and the growth of new industries rather than hold so fast to Coal. Either way, such industries are slowly being outmarketed by greener technologies — assistance from the government could only hasten what is already coming.
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