By Laura Hemmer Santa Monica
(Editor’s note: The following is an open letter to the Santa Monica City Council) The earth is quaking, this heat wave is a killer — and you are chopping down trees! I was sure it had to be some kind of bad joke.
How, possibly, could reasonable, intelligent people be so obsessively bent on murdering that which sustains life? Is there something in the California budget that will buy some oxygen?
Maybe you could all use the “money” to get serious high colonics so that your brains will start to actually operate with... common sense.
My God, what hath thou wrought? (This is not a religious question). How have we become so spoiled, greedy, arrogant and self-serving?
With our choices, we create or desecrate the world for our children. Shame.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 24, 2007. Read the original PDF.