Well, the hysteria and hyperbole about Joe Pizarchik’s nomination to be director of OSMRE have slowed with the Senate break. However, Congress comes back next week and I’m sure the “citizen activists” will as well. Fortunately, people who really know Joe recognize his value.
However, I’m still trying to figure out what I’m going to do. Until this started, these were my people—or so I thought. I care deeply about environmental issues on both a broad and a very narrow level. I’ve never understood how a company can think it’s okay to foul the air or water when there are ways to avoid it. And in every place I’ve lived, I’m the neighbor who picks up roadside litter as I walk my dog. (Why people think woods = trash dump is far beyond me.)
So I’m far from “drill baby drill.” But these people who attacked Joe Pizarchik cherry-pick their “facts” so often you’d think they were looking for WMDs. They voted for the current president, yet question his judgment without finding out the truth. Some of them even say they want to shut down coal mining completely and yet use electricity to say it (uhh, is that the electricity from the OTHER half of our energy sources that they’re using to say it?).
I wish I could find a way to get them to understand that their tactics are morally and ethically wrong. But that’s a tall order. I know, though, that from here on out, I’ll put my charitable donation money into education—at least that way we might get some new adults capable of critical thinking.
