HINSDALE, N.H.-Third Act has it wrong. If you drive, ride, or take a bus to a protest, you benefited from fossil fuels. To protest a bank investment in fossil fuels makes a person not only uninformed but also a hypocrite.
Everything from the clothes on your back to literally everything you consume was brought by fossil fuels (trucks). Your smartphone? That has plastics (based in petroleum), and if you have stayed or know someone in a hospital, petroleum-based plastics are necessary and save lives. If you wear clothing, fossil fuels made it possible. If you live in a house or apartment, fossil fuels built it.
Even beloved electric cars require mining, done by fossil-fuel-powered machines.
Fossil fuels are here to stay.
Sandy Golden
Hinsdale, N.H.
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