A
Child's Guide To Poison
 Everybody
knows poison is bad for you. It can make you sick but
it can also kill you.
The
cars that fill our streets are powered by poison, but
their engines cannot burn the poison perfectly so you
eventually breathe some of it into your lungs.
This poison is also
explosive.
Driver's buy this explosive poison from places which
store it underground in
tanks
that sometimes leak the
poison into the ground. Oftentimes, when people who
buy poison get careless, some of the poison is spilled
onto the ground.
Poison is delivered to
those tanks by big trucks which
drive right through your neighborhoods, and the trucks
get the gas from poison-filled pipelines that are hundreds
of miles long and buried deep in the earth. These
pipelines
are connected
to processing
plants
which produce million of gallons of poison every
day.
The raw material for the poison comes from crude
poisons that are pumped out of the earth and inside
other pipelines that are also hundreds of miles long.
These
sometimes
rupture
and poison the earth.
These crude poisons are removed from the earth in ways
which leave some of the poison in the surrounding earth.
In order
to get as much of
this crude poison out of the earth as possible companies
now pump other poisons into the earth. This requires
using a lot of fresh water which itself becomes poisoned. This
poisoned water sometimes migrates into fresh water
supplies, thus poisoning them, too.
Poison now sometimes comes out of people's faucets.
Companies also pump poison from wells deep below the
ocean's surface. Sometimes something goes wrong and
we poison
the ocean. Many fish die.
People who get rich from selling poison will use their
money to get laws written that will favor poison production.
This means more poison for everyone, but at the prices
they choose.
When poison companies think they don't have enough
of the crude poison for themselves they will use their
power to convince our government to fight and kill
the
people
of
other countries in
order
to get their poison. Our government will even secretly
overthrow other governments in order to
gain
access to more poison.
It's time to stop.
For many years we have operated our cars on poison
but that's because it was all
we had
at the
time,
but
we don't
need
poison
any
longer. Smart people are now making electric cars that
are much better than poison-powered cars, so the
faster
we build more of those cars the
cleaner, and happier,
the
Earth will
be. For everyone.
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Addendum: I've received several comments which try
to make the argument that even electric cars will need
poison fuel to charge their batteries.
Let me point out instead that Germany is already making
so much renewable energy, much of it solar, that they're
having to shut down several fossil fuel-powered energy
plants.
If cold, dark Germany can do this, so can sunny, expansive
America.
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Double-Addendum: I occasionally make small
running changes in my cartoons, usually because I was
too rushed
or
too tired to get it right, but today
was the first time I've ever completely changed a cartoon.
As you'll see from the
original version, this one's
better. I miss the smiling, whistling man but
there was no room for him this time.
=Lefty=
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