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We need to push President Obama to take the (supposed) $20 billion BP fund and fines and match them for a renewable energy, wind and solar, job creation renewal of the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding states. That can be the nucleus for transforming the nation to healthy wind and solar and get us off of drilling and oil. Although the job creation crisis will take top billing for a lot of reasons, the real crisis is averting total climate tipping point disaster (and it may already be too late - but we have to try). The human caused extinction of much of the planets' non-human life is going extraordinarily "well" as we push the extinction rate to a thousand to ten thousand times the rate a hundred years ago - heading quickly to ecosystem collapse. This is the real crisis affecting the next million years. Biodiverisity loss is easy to see as the white nosed bat fungus (with 90% mortality rate) is due to enter Wisconsin next year - and bee colonies and natural pollinators are in rapid decline all over the world. In the past 35 years, non-human life populations have declined 35%. The United Nations has urged radical and creative immediate action must be taken to address the biodiversity crisis. Humans may think that this economic decline is the biggest problem - but in the scope of earth's existence, it is minor compared to human habit in dealing with the natural world as a killing paradigm. We need to balance our concerns and combine them to create a living paradigm with renewable energy job creation as a first step.