Irony

Editor, Gettysburg Times,

The article by Ed Riggs in the Aug. 22 edition of the Gettysburg Times was very informative and very chilling. Scientists have been warning us for decades about what might happen if we continued to dump our carbon refuse into the atmosphere: more forest fires, more tornados, more flooding and droughts, oceans that will have no living corals and reduced fishing, to name a few. But these warnings have fallen on deaf ears with many legislators!

Wouldn’t it be hilarious if the most dire predictions came true, such that human life on the planet will no longer be possible? Billionaires can light their evening candles with million dollar bills because there will no longer be a reason to save money- there will be nothing to purchase!

But those on the right continue to buy into the lies of the petroleum industry that it is okay to dump a million pounds of carbon every second into the atmosphere and that we should continue to use coal to produce electricity, thereby increasing the carbon footprint.

Wouldn’t it be ironic if the most advanced species on this earth caused our planet to perish because of greed? Go figure!

Norman Nunamaker,
Gettysburg