All over the world, people in positions of authority are making decisions like this, carefully adjusting their blinders to avoid seeing what it isn’t politic to see. Like that getting money for your schools by permitting yet another fossil fuel facility is pointless, as your actions are foreclosing the kind of future the kids would need an education for.

The schools should be teaching about hand combat, emergency shelter, purifying drinking water since the authorities, including the school board, are setting up the kind of future in which warlord-led gangs, famine, fire, flood, drought, pestilence and breakdown are the norms and survival is the objective.

This kind of criminal irresponsibility is absolutely normal, nearly universal, and it’s why activists are saying, flatly– capitalism is not compatible with adequate action on climate change.

I have a grandchild going to school in Morgantown.

Mary Wildfire, Roane County, WV