[Mpls] Solar Panels are Back Ordered 6 Months Around the World

[Aaarty at aol.com]

A polluted environment adversely affects women more than it does  men. Toxic 
and cancerous chemicals land and reside in fat cells and tissue.  Women have 
more fat cells than men and can pass on toxic chemicals to their  unborn. In 
Minnesota cancer is now our leading cause of death and our  environment gets 
more polluted everyday. 
 
The leading mayoral candidates like to palm themselves off as  
environmentalists. All three are pushing for more housing and more jobs when we  are not 
using the housing we have efficiently and when we have too many people  working 
too long at completely non essential jobs which only causes more  pollution, 
inflation, greenhouse gasses and resource shortages. We need  shorter work weeks 
and  vacations at least as long as Europeans enjoy. This  would create more 
jobs.
 
Building ever more housing will bring more pollution and  congestion. If 
almost everyone didn't have an internal combustion engine and if  we lived simply 
and frugally it would b a different story. 
 
Our housing, crime and budget problems are insignificant when  compared to 
what we will face in the near future. Super storms are  making their debut. We 
can't  reverse global climate change in our life  times, but we can, to some 
degree, slow its progress. It will take an effort  greater than our mobilization 
in World War Two. It will take an immediate  serious conservation policy and 
immediate use and development of  renewable energy technology everywhere. This 
will create essential and  meaningful jobs.
 
Minneapolis must b a leader. Our federal government is doing  nothing to try 
to slow climate change and disruption. In fact they make  things much worse by 
giving billions to the deadly nuclear  and fossil fuel industries. Our state 
government and governor are  doing nothing. Some cities are taking action and 
Minneapolis 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 interests and carry on  with business 
as usual is 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. 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. 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 re-funded. Its a no brainer...  an investment we 
can't refuse. We can't afford not to do it. The pay back would  be immediate.
 
Our city desperately needs a leader and not a follower. We can use  high tech 
acoustic triangulated sensors in our high crime areas to detect  gunfire in 
split seconds and have police on the scene several minutes faster to  make more 
arrests of the most dangerous criminals in our city.  The tactics  of R. 
Buckminster Fuller, maximizing efficiency, hybrid vehicles, hydrogen  technology, 
L.E.D. technology, organic vegetable gardens in schools,  more lower cost 
vegetarian meals for inmates, scaling back some of the  expensive school busing 
will not only reduce the pollution and greenhouse  gasses we produce, these 
actions will reduce our taxes as well. 
 
This "logorhea" should again get the reaction of every hack,  lobbyist and 
spin master from the oil, coal and nuclear  industry.

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