To the editor,
At last WWF [June 2007] acknowledges the twinned crises of climate change and the end of Maine’s fisheries (“Houston, We Have a Problem”) with a twinge of optimism. I share the buoyant hope that we can solve these crises. But the “we” who can are clearly not the folks in charge. Even though our numbers grow every day as we catch on to the realities of our dire situation our political economy is ruled by global corporatocracy with a sole driving imperative — maximize profits for shareholders, i.e., a tiny percentage of the wealthy.
Until we are willing to take that cod by the tail and transform corporations into responsible citizens of the planet and change their imperative to something that honors the Earth instead of ravaging it and reclaims the vision of a long term future for life, including homo sapiens the chances of making it through the knothole are nil…
Judith Lawson
Brooksville