Anti-fracking activists gather outside of the Colorado Convention Center while a state oil and gas task force meeting takes place on Feb. 24. (Andy Cross, Denver Post file)
Re: “Colorado oil, gas task force sends 9 measures on to governor’s desk,” Feb. 25 news story.
Coloradans await the outcome of the governor’s oil and gas task force’s work with trepidation, for good reason. This carefully scripted political theater has resembled a Gary Larson cartoon in which well-dressed dinosaurs discuss the path on which they are proceeding, while ignoring warnings about where that path is leading, a fate we know from hindsight.
We hope to forge a future different from the Pleistocene dinosaurs, but to avoid becoming Anthropocene dinosaurs, we need to turn rapidly away from fossil fuels — the main driver of climate change — and focus our immense human capacities on innovating and investing toward a livable planet.
A discussion among dinosaurs does not bode well for Colorado’s future as a healthy, habitable place. For those who prefer a better future, it is time to say to the dinosaurs and the oil and gas industry, “Enough — we want to go a different direction!”
Douglas Henderson,Fort Collins
This letter was published in the March 3 edition.
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