Hopeful Patterns: Youth --- Our Best Hope

This publication is based on the assumption that our children, their children, and their grandchildren will have to bear the burdens of an ever more decimated planet and the cruel legacies of an ignorant current ineffective electoral structures, an aggressive unregulated free market economy driven by irresponsible, transnational corporations who buy our political leaders, protective of their secured, generous salaries and are funded by the complicit extractive industries that control coal mining, fossil fuel reliance, deathly air and carbon dioxide pollution. Mineral extraction on public lands, such as copper in my own Arizona, will forever alter our open and precious, public parklands.The violation of indigenous Native American’s sovereign spiritual lands that our current President Trump cedes to the extractive industries best exemplifies the peril of communal legacies that can protect our future progeny and the quality of life of our children.