wow! horrific! chilling! how…

wow! horrific! chilling! how much have we lost already, and he wants to take more? he got away with trying to attack the greenbelt. no consequences for ford, of course he didn't know anything! ignore the fact that the scapegoat was one of his business partners and family friends, ignore the fact that they had dinners together, of course ford was shocked! appalled! that they caught him doing something illegal when he thought he could get away with it.
and it looks like he can. because here we are again, having what meagre protections we have managed to muster for the environment ripped away. how can we trust this government to decide what species need protecting when they have shown themselves to care for personal profit above all else. is that not a conflict of interest? they say there will be "steep fines" if someone oversteps, but will the fines for these businesses be greater than the money they are earning with their rampant and greedy destruction? there will be regulations, but we haven't seen them. we are meant to trust the ford government when it has done nothing but lie when it comes to the environmental sector. it's insanity.
there's a quote from ford, where he says, essentially, "you can't clear a field because there's a grasshopper. should we stop for one grasshopper?" and I think that is such a vastly illuminating concept, because I have been alive a much shorter time than ford has, and I have seen a drastic decrease in insects in my life. every year there are less caterpillars, less moths and butterflies, less ladybugs and garden beetles.
I am not a scientist. I am not someone who studies or works with the environment in any capacity. all I am is someone who has watched what we have wither and die away under some mythic "greater good" that fails to fix our society anyway. yes, I am worried about that one little grasshopper. there used to be hundreds of him, in one field. and now there is one.