Letters to the Editor
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Too little, too late, too long of odds
Should Exxon and other corporate polluters pay for their environmental crimes? Absolutely. That said, many people are going to feel that they mostly just provide the products with which all Americans destroy the planet. Exxon doesn’t drive the fossil-fool powered wheelchairs to the big box stores to buy cheap plastic crap from China and out of season foods, we do. No corporation forces people to put off properly rebuilding their houses to proper insulation standards and they certainly don’t set the thermostats, we do. Since it is not possible to sue the entirety of America for the damage, I guess the corporations who have provided the tools and justifications for the coming catastrophe will just have to do. Who knows, if these companies get hit hard enough, we might actually see the cost of energy use rise high enough to get some behavioral change on the part of consumers