Brainstorming, Making choices

 A FRIEND OF MINE  and I spent the entire Trump administration brainstorming, trying to figure out a way to get rid of Trump. I turned into a sort of competition, and became quite creative. some of our ideas were, to say the least, a bit far fetched, but, as we say, desperate circumstances require desperate solutions. when impeachment didn't work, we knew we were licked, and would have to be content to wait for our chance to git the job done at the ballot box. That worked. One week into the Biden administration I realized that Joe Biden is the greatest president in American history. My friend totally agreed, agreed that every one of Biden's executive orders was right on the mark, a step forward in bringing the country back from destitution, with the exception that he didn't like the cancelling of the Keystone pipeline. He said he didn't want to pay four dollars a gallon for gas. rather than to try to convince him that cancelling the pipeline would not result in four dollar gasoline, that it wouldn't have nearly that much impact on the oil market, I tried a different approach. There are far more important choices confronting us all than how much we want to pay for gasoline, I explained. We have to choose whether or not to convert from a carbon based fossil fuel economy to a clean energy carbon free economy, for one. We have to decide whether to fight climate change, whether to try to save the planet, literally, for future generations. These choices confront us, and really they are all varieties of the same choices, whether or not we want to deal with them, they are there, right in front of us. And whatever choice we make, whether to fight climate change by converting to clean energy, we will make the choice together, as a single unit, the entire human species acting as one entity.We will all share the responsibility and we will all share in the consequences of whatever choice we make. My friend will not be alone in paying for expensive gasoline, and my friend will not be alone in experiencing climate change over the next few years. nor will he be alone is experiencing an improving environment, a climate returning to normal, and in knowing that he is giving future generations a healthier world  for their well being should we choose to fight climate change. I reminded him the cost will be high for everyone, and that the benefits will be shared by everyone. Only some billionaire bankers and money managers will benefit, short term, for not choosing a clean energy future. But the benefits of a cleaner, healthier future will be shared by in in a renewed prosperity which comes with a growing new industry, clean energy, and which comes with a world becoming healthier, day by day. He agreed.