It is not rocket science

The letter from Dick Warwick (“Bloomberg wrong for the job,” Dec. 24) is an unusually succinct and intelligent observation of how the billionaires in presidential politics are connected to the massive, lethal, human-caused problem that Warwick refers to as the Growth Paradigm.

It is not rocket science to see that, even under the most favorable scenario, exploitation of Earth’s resources cannot continue at the ever-accelerating rate we have seen since the Industrial Revolution began 200 years ago. Two hundred years is only a blink in our evolutionary history.

We have arrived at a watershed moment. We will either continue on the present course of ecological destruction and climate catastrophe or we will listen to those, such as Bernie Sanders, who have a far more compassionate and intelligent plan than the one we are following now.

Unfortunately, we don’t have a lot of time, if the majority of scientists are correct. The billionaires, no matter their good intentions, don’t have adequate answers to the enormity of the impending crisis.

Robert Helmick

Rathdrum, Idaho