Mueller Lake Park Outdoor Amphitheater
For Posterity’s Sake
RECEIVED Sun., March 31, 2019
Dear Editor,
As a first-year student enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin, I would like to respond to an article written by journalist Michael King titled “Point Austin: Signing On to a Green New Deal” that was published earlier this month [News, March 1]. I think it is high time that as a nation we come together and create/enact comprehensive environmental legislation reform, and I firmly believe the direction that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ed Markey have laid out in House Resolution 109 is of the United States’ best interest.
I am excited to see such positive and energized receptions from members of the public and from those public servants whom we have voted into office, especially with the support offered by Lloyd Doggett, our congressional representative for the city of Austin. With the current administration’s denial of scientists’ warnings about the looming threat of climate change, it is the responsibility of all of us to combat this barrage of environmental ignorance and apathy toward the state of our natural, shared world.
The article references the controversial “inevitable economic consequences” that the environmental changes will inevitably result in, and Doggett suggests that “we need to plan for economic dislocation as well as climate disaster.” But taking into account a utilitarian approach to this issue, it is clear that the Green New Deal is our premier option. It is wholly necessary for us to ignore the short-term monetary gains if they are at the expense of the sanctity of the natural world, and to begin to invest in our future so that we may continue to exist unhindered on this green and blue planet. It is imperative that we pursue this course of action, for posterity’s sake.
As a first-year student enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin, I would like to respond to an article written by journalist Michael King titled “Point Austin: Signing On to a Green New Deal” that was published earlier this month [News, March 1]. I think it is high time that as a nation we come together and create/enact comprehensive environmental legislation reform, and I firmly believe the direction that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ed Markey have laid out in House Resolution 109 is of the United States’ best interest.
I am excited to see such positive and energized receptions from members of the public and from those public servants whom we have voted into office, especially with the support offered by Lloyd Doggett, our congressional representative for the city of Austin. With the current administration’s denial of scientists’ warnings about the looming threat of climate change, it is the responsibility of all of us to combat this barrage of environmental ignorance and apathy toward the state of our natural, shared world.
The article references the controversial “inevitable economic consequences” that the environmental changes will inevitably result in, and Doggett suggests that “we need to plan for economic dislocation as well as climate disaster.” But taking into account a utilitarian approach to this issue, it is clear that the Green New Deal is our premier option. It is wholly necessary for us to ignore the short-term monetary gains if they are at the expense of the sanctity of the natural world, and to begin to invest in our future so that we may continue to exist unhindered on this green and blue planet. It is imperative that we pursue this course of action, for posterity’s sake.
Sincerely,
Evan Gruters
Evan Gruters
