FREE PRESS • May 5, 2020
The coronavirus crisis is small compared to the Climate Crisis. The big questions now concern the survival of humans and much other life on earth. Thus, the stakes couldn’t be higher. And the battle cannot be other than political. The greedy have gotten their way by setting — buying — the political rules. Only a big, well-prepared, wise, calm, committed political team could save America — and maybe the world — from the predators tearing us apart and suffocating us with pollution. Our articulate Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine CDC, has said. “We, all of us in Maine, get to write the next chapter. And we get to write the ending ourselves.” He was talking about the COVID-19 crisis. But let’s write a larger script — personally, socially, and politically, with honor. Survival depends on it. ~ Lance Tapley