A Plea, Now and for November
Wrote this on Facebook when early voting started. Garrett Hardin and his essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" have been a strong influence on me, hopefully for the better.
Where does your space end and mine begin? What do we do about companies dumping pollutants into spaces held by all of us in common, like our air and surface water and ground water?
Is there a limit to the right of companies to sell products that unreasonably threaten our lives and safety? Is there to be no limit to corporate freedom but only to OUR freedom to be safe from unnecessarily dangerous products and contaminants?
Do private interests have a right to render our public spaces and resources as an "Exhibit A" to the tragedy of the commons?
Conservatives and most libertarians think we individuals have to bear the dangers and risks and lump it if we don't like it, that freedom runs only in the perspective of profit, that little people should be denied the use of government and regulation in self defense.
I don't know about you but I am mad as hell at what this conservative wave is doing to our country and its people, at the crippling of the EPA and erosion of public lands at the Department of the Interior, and at the McCarthyism that paints anyone who advocates in the public interest as a "socialist."
What we can so easily and privately do RIGHT NOW is VOTE.... [Reference to party deleted. I'm trying to keep this from being too partisan.]
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