Four Necessities
With the Climate and the Covid crises
Four Necessities are required:
1 Trust the scientists.
2 Tell the truth.
3 Strengthen government effectiveness.
4 Develop cooperation—domestic & international.
Not achieving most/all of these
Require the boss be fired.
© Forrest W. Heaton 8 May 2020
We write our Blog on three primary topics: Poetry, Parks and Planet, and we write with three guiding principles: 1) interesting/timely topics, 2) no rants, 3) “Be brief, be brilliant, be gone.”
This post, or at least the poem referencing removing—via your vote—the responsible top official, could be considered by some as a violation of our “no rants” principle. But we ask readers not to read any “politics” into this. There are so many “rants” out there, there is no need for another. It is the life/death seriousness of these two crises that drives this poem.
We believe the Climate Crisis is ongoing and existential—those that follow us may not have a habitable home. We believe the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Crisis, although not existential, is life-threatening in the extreme and will be with us longer than currently projected. These two crises, playing out simultaneously worldwide, require federal, state and local governmental leaders worldwide achieve the above four necessities simultaneously on both crises.
In the three Blog posts that will follow this, we will look more closely at the U.S. Federal Government response to each of the two crises with regard to the Four Necessities described above. Between now and then, we invite each reader to do their own study and let us know their recommendations as to items/links we might include.
