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GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. I
COURT REPORTER: GWEN BRASS PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012
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not just a scoping. We need as human beings to sit down and
ask ourselves how in God's name did we let ourselves get in
this position.
Einstein gave us -- he said we are all interconnected
and independent as we, you and I, have omitted to -- the taking
over of our native institutions to money, power, and things to
the extent that we are not --
MR. STURTEVANT: Thank you.
THE SPEAKER -- in control. So we must get together to
figure out how we can control --
MR. STURTEVANT: Thank you.
THE SPEAKER: Thank you.
THE SPEAKER: My name is Jessie Dye with Earth
Ministry/Washington Interfaith Power & Light. Thank you to the
committee for sitting through this. You have been remarkably
patient and generous with your intention.
I'm a Catholic, but I speak on behalf of people of
many Christian denominations and, in fact, many faith
traditions to say that we believe that God created the world
and our scriptures tell us that we were given the world to
steward and to care for and to protect.
Also, our faith traditions are very strong to speak
about justice for the poorest. And the poorest on earth are
those who depend on a reliable climate to eat tomorrow. Who
depend on reliable rain to have clean water or in fact any