[Mpls] Will it b "Utopia or Oblivion"?

[Aaarty at aol.com]

As I write these words a category 5 hurricane is pounding and  flooding one 
of our oldest and most vulnerable cities. Hundreds of thousands of  residents 
are fleeing for their lives. An M.I.T. study just released this month  tells us 
that hurricanes will indeed b more frequent and more intense thanks to  the 
warming of our planet. All hydro-meteorological disasters will b more  frequent 
and more intense. Every year will b worse.  How can we ignore a  crisis that 
will have such a devastating impact on our entire earth and our  future? How 
can we go on with business as usual? 
 
Our housing, crime and budget problems are insignificant when  compared to 
what we are all about to face in the near future. We can't   reverse global 
climate change in our life times, but we can, to some small  degree, slow its 
inevitable progress. It will take an effort greater than our  mobilization in 
World War Two. It will take immediate serious conservation  policy and immediate 
design and development of renewable energy technology  everywhere. 
 
Minneapolis must b a leader. Our federal government is doing  nothing. In 
fact they did the worse thing they could do by dumping your money  and my money 
on the deadly nuclear and fossil fuel industries. Our state  government and 
governor are doing nothing. Some cities are taking action  and Minneapolis with 
its educated and enlightened citizens must show the world  what can b done. 
Conservation can bring great wealth and cleaner air to our city  and state. 
Conservation can reduce the deadly mercury emissions. Conservation  can prevent the 
flow of  billions of dollars out of our city and state that  we spend on 
fossil and nuclear fuel. Renewable energy can bring great wealth and  health as 
well. The sun and wind are free.
 
Electing politicians who will b serving special interest  groups and carrying 
on with business as usual will b suicide. Electing  politicians who only want 
to build more housing when we are not using what we  have efficiently and 
electing politicians who only want to create more jobs  regardless of what kind 
of jobs they might b is a path to apocalypse. We  need radical measures. it is 
time to stop being the most wasteful pigs on the  planet. Its time to show the 
world how we can put up beautiful solar arrays on  our ugly freeways and 
parking lots and ramps and generate thousands of kilowatts  of electricity from 
the free, clean, inexhaustible energy of the sun for  our city. Its time to use 
the free funds that are available from the state and  federal government 
because if we don't use them they will not b refunded. Its a  no brainer... a great 
investment. We can't afford not to do it. Our city  desperately needs a 
leader with vision and insight and not a follower. We must  act now. The tactics of 
R. Buckminster Fuller, the tactics of maximizing  efficiency will not only 
reduce the pollution and greenhouse gasses we produce,  they will reduce our 
taxes as well. 
 
The lives  we save could b our own. God help us and guide  us from this path 
of waste, death and destruction and guide us onto the path of  life, love and 
everlasting enlightenment.

 
Sincerely,  Don Johnson, Candidate for Mayor, 3808 Grand Ave So. Minneapolis, 
MN 55409 (612)  824 1111. Visit 
_www.DonJohnsonMayor.org_ (http://www.donjohnsonmayor.org/)