A polluted environment adversely affects women more than it does men. Toxic and cancerous chemicals land and reside in fat cells and tissue. Women have more fat cells than men and can pass on toxic chemicals to their unborn. In Minnesota cancer is now our leading cause of death and our environment gets more polluted everyday. The leading mayoral candidates like to palm themselves off as environmentalists. All three are pushing for more housing and more jobs when we are not using the housing we have efficiently and when we have too many people working too long at completely non essential jobs which only causes more pollution, inflation, greenhouse gasses and resource shortages. We need shorter work weeks and vacations at least as long as Europeans enjoy. This would create more jobs. Building ever more housing will bring more pollution and congestion. If almost everyone didn't have an internal combustion engine and if we lived simply and frugally it would b a different story. Our housing, crime and budget problems are insignificant when compared to what we will face in the near future. Super storms are making their debut. We can't reverse global climate change in our life times, but we can, to some degree, slow its progress. It will take an effort greater than our mobilization in World War Two. It will take an immediate serious conservation policy and immediate use and development of renewable energy technology everywhere. This will create essential and meaningful jobs. Minneapolis must b a leader. Our federal government is doing nothing to try to slow climate change and disruption. In fact they make things much worse by giving billions to the deadly nuclear and fossil fuel industries. Our state government and governor are doing nothing. Some cities are taking action and Minneapolis must show the world what can b done. Conservation can bring great wealth and cleaner air to our city and state. Conservation can reduce the deadly mercury emissions. Conservation can prevent the flow of billions of dollars out of our city and state that we spend on fossil and nuclear fuel. Renewable energy can bring great wealth and health as well. The sun and wind in this state are abundant and free. Electing politicians who serve special interests and carry on with business as usual is suicide. Electing politicians who only want to build more housing when we are not using what we have efficiently and electing politicians who want to create more jobs regardless of what kind of jobs, is a path to apocalypse. Its time to stop being the most wasteful pigs on the planet. Its time to show the world how we can put up beautiful solar arrays on our ugly freeways, parking lots and ramps and generate thousands of kilowatts of electricity from the free, clean, inexhaustible energy of the sun. Its time to use the free funds that are available from the state and federal government. If we don't use them they will not b re-funded. Its a no brainer... an investment we can't refuse. We can't afford not to do it. The pay back would be immediate. Our city desperately needs a leader and not a follower. We can use high tech acoustic triangulated sensors in our high crime areas to detect gunfire in split seconds and have police on the scene several minutes faster to make more arrests of the most dangerous criminals in our city. The tactics of R. Buckminster Fuller, maximizing efficiency, hybrid vehicles, hydrogen technology, L.E.D. technology, organic vegetable gardens in schools, more lower cost vegetarian meals for inmates, scaling back some of the expensive school busing will not only reduce the pollution and greenhouse gasses we produce, these actions will reduce our taxes as well. This "logorhea" should again get the reaction of every hack, lobbyist and spin master from the oil, coal and nuclear industry.
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