Buffett should rescue Earth

I see Warren Buffett’s picture sitting next to Bill Gates talking about giving to charities. I’m not impressed. His oil and coal trains go past my home, through my town, over our river and aquifer. I am angry and sad.

To me, he is a classic industrialist whose life purpose is to make money by exploiting opportunity. Right now, that is extraction of coal and oil.

My view of the planet’s situation is as black as his oil: The Earth’s temperature will go above the 2-degree rise limit; the oceans are lost; ice caps will disappear. We can help the Earth cope by stopping the extraction of unneeded coal and oil ASAP, shift to non-fossil energy, lower energy consumption.

We need to act like the emergency it is, and start cleaning land and waterways now. While the lives he tries to help with his charities are valuable, it is meaningless if life is hell on Earth. I urge him to do everything he can, and with publicity, to invest in the life and health of planet Earth. He will save everybody, not a few.

Connie Scarpelli

Spokane