So Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, is a hero for sponsoring a bill to fund contests for ideas to understand and address ocean acidification? Scientists have known, and we have seen, that excessive carbon in the atmosphere causes ocean acidification. The ocean acts like a huge sponge and absorbs carbon, causing acidification and impacting coral reefs first, then other animals that rely on shells to survive. She waited her entire life to decide we maybe should address this, by having a contest to figure this out.
We know what to do: stop burning fossil fuels. Stop putting carbon into the atmosphere. The idea that some other solution exists for the long term is insanity.
This is coming up with a box of Band-Aids for a nuclear attack.
If she were serious, she would be out there with the kids fighting for their future calling for an end to the carbon economy and a call to action for alternative energy, now.
But she isn’t serious. She is pandering. The oyster farmers in her district are suffering. Oyster farmers vote.
