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Save the Earth!

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First, let me stipulate that I am NOT one of those who wants to see an earth polluted by whatever manner of trash that any business or individual wants to spew into the air, waterways and lands. I appreciate a clean environment. I do not throw trash out of my car window, dump motor oil down storm drains, nor burn plastic trash in a barrel behind my home. I even drive an electric car. This article from the Associated Press ran in our local newspaper today and is probably published in many others across the US. It reads more like mouth-breathing commentary than it does as a legitimate news story. If you are like most Americans, you will glance at the headline "'Everything is at stake' for climate", look at the pictures of a burning redwood tree, flooding of a home and a baked and cracked lake bed and assume that the earth is about to be destroyed. Then you would move on to the comics or the next meme on Instagram. Thousands of concerned politicians, lobbyists and repor