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Hi! Been trying to read up on our ballot proposals. Would like your input.

My local Democratic Party endorsements are "yes" for all three.

2 & 3 seem obvious yeses to me. Having some reservations on one. While I have no issue with using money collected from fossil fuel industries to help protect the environment from them, this argument against worries me....... specifically the part in bold. I'm curious if this argument is BS or does it hold and water? How are you all voting?

Source:

https://ballotpedia.org/Michigan_Proposal_1,_Use_of_State_and_Local_Park_Funds_Amendment_(2020)



Sierra Club Michigan Chapter: "Sierra Club recognizes and agrees with the need for greater investments in maintenance of recreational facilities within Michigan’s state owned public lands. We have long advocated for the Legislature and Governor to find ongoing sources of funding to ensure that recreational facilities are properly maintained. However shifting prioritization of money from the MNRTF away from purchasing land and to the maintenance of facilities is shortsighted. Requiring revenue from a non-renewable source to go to ongoing, increasing funding needs creates financial problems, it doesn’t solve them. If we are to mitigate climate change, we need to be protecting and preserving land and we need to be working to find new funding sources for the funds as we work to get ourselves off of fossil fuels. We can’t continue to rely on oil and gas royalties as a funding source, when we urgently need to end our reliance on them to combat climate change and protect our environment. We need to find new, sustainable, long-term funding sources for the funds. ... Land is non-renewable. If we miss out on the acquisition of a spectacular parcel and it gets sold and subdivided, that’s that—we missed it." [Source]