Editor,

“If it’s wrong to wreck the planet, it’s wrong to profit from the wreckage.” — Bill McKibben

Join us 3:30-5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, on the corner of Highway 20 and Main Street in Coupeville for a Divestment Day rally/demonstration.

2014 was not a good year for the fossil fuel industry. Their stocks have fallen and the divestment campaign is gaining momentum.

Even the Rockefeller Foundation has committed to divesting. It is estimated that when the carbon bubble bursts, it will be five times the magnitude of the housing bubble of 2007.

The polar ice cap is shrinking. The ocean is souring. The sea is rising. The evening news looks like the Book of Revelations. The Pentagon is worried. According to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, “Among the future trends that will impact our national security is climate change, rising global temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, climbing sea levels, and more extreme weather events will intensify the challenges of global instability, hunger, poverty and conflict.

By taking a proactive, flexible approach to assessment, analysis and adaptation, the Defense Department will keep pace with a changing climate, minimize its impacts on our missions and continue to protect our national security.”(DOD 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Road Map).

Let’s make the leaders of our suicide economy have an even worse 2015. Join us. Bring a sign. We’ll reimburse you for supplies. Suggestions: Human Change, Not Climate Change; Save the Humans; Create the Future Don’t Frack it; Abolish Fossil Fuels; Don’t be a Fossil Fool; Just Say “No” to Fossil Fuels; Don’t Frack with Us; Coal Ports = Coal Bombs!; Oil Trains = Car Bombs; Keep the Oil in the Soil; Courage Not Coal; Divestment Yes!; Don’t Rest Divest!

If you can’t join us, go to www.fossilfree.org and see how you can help. Have a fossil-free day.

Gary and Dianna Piazzon

Coupeville