Our Environment Needs Us Before It’s Too Late— by Eddie Krassenstein

We live in an odd time — a time when much of the progress we have made as a country, in terms of environmental protections, has been put in reverse. Now is the time to once again put our own planet ahead of greedy corporations, harmful special interests, and ridiculously overpaid billionaire CEOs.

This topic brings up a lot of finger pointing, especially from within politics, but this should not be a political issue. This is about protecting our planet and our own future generations.

The dwindling reliance on scientific facts, combined with corporate greed and mass deregulation, has pushed the once obvious motive of protecting our planet to the backseat, while wealthy billionaires and uneducated individuals who‘d prefer to buy into conspiracy science rather than legitimate scientific research and facts, are propelled to the front of the line.

Let’s take, for example, the coal and fossil fuel industries. While other nations swiftly try and move past their reliance on these ancient forms of energy, in favor of safer, more ecologically friendly alternatives, America remains stagnant. We have become a nation that is essentially being controlled by wealthy entities dumping quicksand on the legs of technological pro-environmental progress.