To the editor:

Now is the time to rally around President Obama in his veto of the Keystone pipeline. This pipeline will not create jobs that will strengthen communities or lead to long-term financial security for individuals. Instead, the alleged “jobs” will be temporary construction jobs, which means that workers will descend on a site and live in nearby trailers, buy expensive trucks, which will be repossessed a few months later when the work runs out, and then move on.

As much carbon as possible needs to remain in the ground, because when it is released into the atmosphere, the result is pollution, global warming and unpredictable weather patterns. We need to structure our economy around renewables such as wind and solar.

Finally, the most important question we all need to ask ourselves is do we want our children to inherit an Earth that can sustain all of its wondrous creatures, including ourselves?