Letter: Culture of death?

Has the United States descended into a culture of death?

Like a rogue state, we advocate aggressive, pre-emptive war in violation of the United Nations Charter and use torture in violation of the Geneva Conventions.

Why has the United States not signed the Kyoto Protocol, again effectively alone and defying reason, science and world opinion? Why are Americans and their politicians apathetic in the killing of our planet’s biosphere?

Has Karl Rove orchestrated the latest distraction of illegal immigration to divert public attention from the urgent issues facing our times? It works, doesn’t it?

As Professor Robert Jensen pointedly asks (www.alternet.org/story/36892): What are “whites” afraid of? (Jensen is white.)

Al Gore documents in his book, “An Inconvenient Truth,” that South Florida will be under water if sea levels worldwide increase 18 feet (not inches) due to the accelerated melting of Greenland and Antarctica.

Gore even acknowledged on “Larry King Live” (June 13) that “we are at or near what they call Peak Oil.”

Global warming and Peak Oil are objective realities. Even the Bush White House admits them. Maryland Republican Rep. Roscoe Bartlett is regularly updating Bush personally on Peak Oil.

Will our culture of death continue to pursue aggression against nations and the environment? Will we continue to massacre our brothers and sisters in other nations — and destroy life globally through ecocide? Or will we Americans wake up and embrace nonviolence and sustainable living?

It’s not too late to save life on Earth.

Noelia Rodriguez/Naples