Sadly, as the ice habitat of polar bears is melting, the Navajo Nation
President and Council are pressing for another coal-fired power plant,
Desert Rock, to produce more greenhouse gases to destroy more of the
Arctic. The polar bears and walrus are now being driven from their
homeland in the north largely because of coal-fired power plants, just
as the Navajos were driven from their homeland in the south so Peabody
Coal could seize the land for coal mines to feed power plants.
While it is a great day to see the voices of the traditional Hopi and
Navajo converge with the facts of science, it is a sad day to see the
destruction all around us. This was the reason for the Longest Walk, to
bring attention to this destruction.
From the nuclear testing and gold mining on Western Shoshone lands in
Nevada to the widespread oil and gas drilling on Ute lands in Colorado
and the power plants on Navajoland, the damage to Mother Earth is
pervasive.
In simple towns of working people across the west, power plants were
being built wherever people were economically desperate and unaware of
the illnesses that follow.
When the Bush Administration carried out torture, it violated the Geneva Conventions and committed perverse criminal acts.
By concealing the truth of global warming, so that power plants would
be constructed and oil and gas drilling would increase rapidly in the
mad rush for corporate profiteering before Bush's term ended, the Bush
Administration committed a crime against humanity.
In reality, this was not just the genocide of American Indians and
people of color, this crime crossed all racial lines and is now a crime
against all of the people on this continent and all of humanity.
US Censored Climate Report
Global warming and wildfires:
"In the last three decades, the wildfire season in the western United
States has lengthened and burn durations have increased. Climate change
has also very likely increased the size and number of insect outbreaks
and tree mortality that help to fuel wildfires in the interior West,
the Southwest, and Alaska. These trends are very likely to continue."
[V.1.c]
Greenhouse gases and black carbons
"Several different types of gases in the atmosphere warm the planet by
trapping energy that would otherwise be emitted to space. These
‘greenhouse gases’ include water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, ozone,
nitrous oxide, and several fluorine- and chlorine-containing gases.
"Black carbon aerosols introduce a warming influence. Deposition of
black carbon on snow and ice also contributes a warming influence on
the climate by decreasing surface reflectivity that would otherwise
deflect more solar energy back into space."
Writings 
Hopi Sinom, including Thomas Banyacya and Dan Evehema, foretold of a time when hurricanes, storms and wildfires would seize the planet if human beings did not care for Mother Earth. They also warned if the secret agenda of coal mining was carried out on Black Mesa, under the guise of the so-called Navajo Hopi land dispute and Navajos were relocated, that natural calamities would increase.
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