Towards the end of the Gazette editorial of Feb. 16, some of the opposition to the Green New Deal is characterized as “timid.” A less cautious characterization begins with the diagnosis of the source of the opposition as short-sighted corporate greed. It continues by forthrightly exposing the dissimulation of politicians, and their parrots, with corporate allegiances: the stock rhetoric that their critics are “naïve,” “impractical,” “idealistic,” etc.
In other words, such opposition is a not at all a timid attempt to persist with impunity. The urgency of the problem, and of remedying it, requires that its source be named for exactly what it is.
Don Schneier
Northampton