[Mpls] Vote Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dumb or Survival

[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. We might see the worst  flooding this 
country has ever seen. Oil is topping $70 a barrel. Hundreds of  thousands of 
residents are fleeing for their lives. An M.I.T. study just  released this 
month tells us that hurricanes are and 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 in this state are abundant and  free.
 
Electing politicians who serve special interest groups and  carry 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 want to create more jobs regardless of what kind of  jobs, is a path 
to apocalypse. We need radical measures. Its 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, 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. If we don't use them  they will not b 
refunded. Its a no brainer... am investment we can't turn down.  We can't 
afford not to do it. 
 
Our city desperately needs a leader 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  prudence, life, 
love and everlasting enlightenment.

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