Turn Your Dismay into Positive Change
I believe that every cloud has a silver lining – even today in the aftermath of the most contentious presidential election in recent history. While I am dismayed and humiliated by the mockery that has taken place over the past year, I hope we all hear the message from Americans loud and clear: Americans don’t trust the oligarchy (government controlled by corporations) that we call our government and that we are willing to accept a president who offers drastic change, even if it doesn’t represent our core values and beliefs. I like to stay in control. I work hard to create the little world that I live in. And when I feel that just about everything I had hoped for when this election cycle started now vanished, I’ve picked myself up – albeit slowly this morning – and I’m laying out plans to take care of business. We can’t wait for the new administration that will set us back and fumble around for the next 4 years.
What does that mean?
The biggest problem we face as a civilization is climate change. We need to reduce our CO2 levels by 60% by 2026 or our comfy lifestyles that we take for granted will be gone forever. The president-elect believes that climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese, which means that we can’t rely on our government to find solutions. We are running out of time to find a clean energy system that can do the job.
Invest in Energy Solutions
If oil companies are holding out to sell their last barrels of oil and they’re calling natural gas “a clean alternative,” we need to move to real clean energy now without them. When my daughter Jaclyn was 15 years old, she took a class from Dr. Roy McAlister who invented the “Smart Plug,” a patented spark plug that converts your internal combustion engine so that it will use Metrol, liquid hydrogen (at room temperature). Today, the non-profit organization Kids 4 Hydrogen that she started in 2004, has an amazing team of teens who are carrying out her mission: Convert the ONE BILLION vehicles in the world to use hydrogen instead of gasoline. Hydrogen produces ZERO emissions. Check out their website: www.Kids4Hydrogen.org. They’ll be updating the website soon with information about how to sign up to convert your cars and where to get the fuel. Get on this list. This is something you can do.
Start reducing CO2 now
Rather than argue and debate about good energy solutions, we need to simply reduce CO2 emissions now. That means that everyone – no excuses – needs to reduce their driving by 10-20% per week. It doesn’t matter that you go to work on off hours or that you need your truck to carry big loads. Figure it out like your life depends on it, because it does! Join Logan’s movement to get everyone to reduce their driving by pledging to do so on his website: www.WhenNotIf.org. It’s easy and free. He’ll calculate how much CO2 you prevent from entering our atmosphere. You can do it. You need to do this. Now.
Turn your shock and dismay into positive action. You’ll feel better for it and you’ll be part of the solution. We can’t do anything about a Trump presidency/congress, but we can join the world in reducing CO2 and fossil fuel use. Support non-profit organizations to get this job done. We don’t have time to wait for another administration to set the course to save civilization as we know it. Remember, the earth will survive; it’s the living things that won’t.