We try not to read too much news, because the news brings us both rage and tears. Canada’s wildfires from last year are still burning. The Gulf Stream is collapsing. An ‘era of global boiling’ has started.

With all this composing our daily reality, how can anyone celebrate a Seafair that features the polluting airshows of the Blue Angels? This year, Seattle’s Blue Angels airshows are August 4 to 6…

These airshows are an archaic institution that glorify the largest polluter in the world: the U.S. military-industrial complex. As the award-winning journalist Christopher Cook put it: “The (airshow) guzzles phenomenal amounts of fossil fuels and taxpayer dollars.” The airshows are dropping extra emissions on top of our layers of city smog and wildfire smoke, and contaminants on the plants eaten by our Tribal communities and picked from our urban gardens.

[Here’s hoping they do a flyby over this person’s house. – John]