Keep our world clean

I likes my clean water. I even prefer air that’s not contaminated with all types of pollutants. When I go to the grocery store, I have to assume that the food I’m buying is safe to eat. I don’t have the technical wherewithal to test it before eating. People in Airway Heights have discovered that water they had been drinking for years wasn’t safe even though they thought it was. They couldn’t personally test it.

So why in God’s name (and I mean that most literally) does the administration seem to be doing anything they can to sabotage the monitoring of water, air and food? Every month I hear of new ways they are trying to relax rules on testing and acceptability of those things that make life possible.

We can’t leave our kids and grandchildren an environmental mess just for the convenience of industry. Yes, we need jobs and companies to make products. But there is no value in a product that ruins our future while providing merely for the present. We’re smart. We can keep our world clean — and provide for life.

Bruce Embrey

Spokane