To the Editor:
From what can be read in the BG Sentinel and otherwise gleaned in life, it is apparent environmentalism
has become primarily a political issue and only on occasion might actually involve tangible earth. Add
it to the long list of other minority issues made bedfellow to one political persuasion for the cause of
vote leveraging and wealth redistribution.
Given the shift in balance toward environmental communism, I’d rather see an immediate 10 percent
reduction in all environmental law in the United States, Federal, State and local, than any more garbage
laws based on fanaticism. So, let’s go through the books and rid ourselves of the burdensome
environmental laws that don’t actually protect anything but one political party’s vision. No more
regulations passed in error due to haste and hatred of humanity. No more regulations on Wood County
while ignoring Detroit and Toledo’s contribution to their own problems. Let’s start by scrapping the
recent county and/or state plan to require a toilet flushing license in rural areas. Then let’s learn to
laugh at phony bologna weaponized credentials hanging on government office walls. No more jet setting,
outrageous cost per mile, vacationing White House residents lecturing citizens on climate change from
the seat of a jet burning 20,000 gallons of fuel on one trip and no more busy body local officials
placing limitations on prosperity and innovation in our county. No more local or national news outlets
pushing environmental science fiction while thinking no one will notice.
Marshall Thompson
Grand Rapids