When
will the Central Coast really get going on protecting our climate? Some folks
are doing everything they can. Most of us, though, are either picking at
climate solutions or pretty much ignoring this catastrophic and looming
problem.
We
are still burning fossil fuel like it is going out of style. With our mega
pickups and SUVs, we are digging our children’s environmental graves. We heat
and cool our houses with gas and eat tons of meat thus ensuring a desolate and
desperate future for our descendants.
Politically,
some of our local governments try to push climate healthy policies such as
banning oil well drilling in the Oxnard plain, limiting dangerous oil
extraction projects over the Santa Maria groundwater basin, and joining safe
energy cooperatives in SLO and Morro Bay cities.