Dear President Obama, Prime Minister Harper and President Putin.

 

 Intelligence is a wonderful thing! It allows human beings to compete for food and territory with the other

species attempting to co-exist with us on this planet. Because of  Homo Sapiens,  however, many of the other species are losing the struggle for basic survival. They are going extinct while we humans proliferate into the billions. The few solutions we have attempted to create in order to slow our human birth rate have been disallowed by our prolific religious world leaders along with a majority of our world politicians. All the other species are now subject to us! The trees and plants and microbes and germs and viruses are no exception. Humans are masters of the planet!  I am ashamed to be a human who is forced to witness the destruction of other life forms but like many other sentient creatures, I refuse to leave this planet willingly! I am, however, willing to help save the environment and the other species while improving my own life. 

 We Homo Sapiens have created tools and guns and ways to murder each other and as many other species as have

the temerity to exist or stand in our way! We are foolishly proud of our polluting industrial and military progress. That industrial progress has been destroying and not enhancing life on Earth. If it were the other way around

 I would not feel the need to write these words!

 I now ask you, on behalf of the other species on this Earth who cannot ask, to please create and enforce stronger anti-pollution laws! Please create and place economic value on products that help nature and please reward those humans who create life enhancing and not life destroying products. Please stop economically rewarding those who create products that pollute and harm life on Earth! That includes guns and gas burning cars which continue to pump out Carbon Monoxide. It includes destructive chemicals and industrial products that cannot be recycled and are created specifically with a short product life. Such cheap quality products are aimed specifically at poor consumers. Producing them often includes the use of  Cancer inducing carcinogens. Products made from cheap plastic often end up in our Oceans or in polluting garbage dumps within small countries that can least afford to deal with the pollution. These cheap products do kill fish and birds and humans! Please slow or stop the Media advertising of such destructive products!  

  Use your collective imaginations for creating cities filled with flower gardens and trees and roof-top green houses. Cities filled with Bicycle paths and all Electric vehicles and safe and Green play Parks for children. Cities that have industrial parks where pollution is created but blocked and cleaned from entering the atmosphere or better yet, not created. Use your half empty oxygen deprived office buildings for creating living spaces for homeless people and within such buildings, inter-level areas filled with indoor oxygen creating plants. Ban the internal combustion engine from city streets.

 Improve mass transit systems and lower Electric Bus fares for the poor and elderly who are the ones  left out and behind when you speak about growing the middle class. Shrink public buses and increase their number. Make them all Electric and run them with computers. Please stop the stupid trend of creating larger public buses that burn gas and create pollution!

Create buildings that allow for plants to exist within their walls. Create buildings that allow for quiet rooms where people could go and sit and relax without the mind disturbing incessant noise now permeating large shopping malls.
You can even place shopping-malls under ground and place large Geodesic Domes filled with plants and trees and small animals above the shopping malls.

You can do all this or you can do nothing and watch as nature, now polluted by humans, silently stops supporting life on Earth.

Joseph Raglione

Executive director: The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement.

P.S. Explain to republicans that the Ozone Holes continue to thin out allowing the Sun to radiate through and melt the Arctic Ice. Atmospheric Ozone is destroyed by many different kinds of pollutants including Carbon.