Global warming is real. So is the harm caused by the manufacture, use and disposal of the synthetic turf field lying in the middle of my children's future.
Failing to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2015 sets in motion a chain of events we cannot alter and that will hit like a tsunami in the world that rightfully belongs to coming generations.
My children and grandchildren are at stake. They cannot afford to pay the price of selfish indulgence and disdain for future generations for the sake of a few more soccer games a year. So I am calling us out. I mean to leave them a world worth living in and will allow no amount of political grandstanding to interfere. Having thought deeply about my words, I say that the selfish fools, the adults, “proud supporters” of the fake turf need to get a clue and work toward the hasty demise of that field, join in promoting sanity, or get out of the way so concerned adults can do what’s needed. Future generations need us to grab hold of sanity and plant it firmly in the ground, to finally set long overdue essential environmental limits. There is no second shot at this.
