To the editor: I wish to applaud visitor contributor Ryan Huling for talking up on behalf of the thousands and thousands of animals that endure and perish in human-caused fires (“Charge wildfire arsonists with cruelty to animals,” Oct. 8).
I’m consistently dismayed by the shortage of reporting on animal lives misplaced in fires, floods, wars and different catastrophic occasions that declare human lives. Not often does anybody acknowledge the “thousands and thousands of different species we share this planet with.” When will the press begin acknowledging animal lives misplaced when reporting on the subsequent catastrophe?
Tracy Keys, Laguna Seaside
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To the editor: With a heavy coronary heart and thru tear-filled eyes, my thoughts springs to J. Robert Oppenheimer’s phrases, uttered as he recalled the devastation of the U.S.’ nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The traditional phrases originate within the Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu scripture: “Now, I’m change into Dying, the destroyer of worlds.”
As Huling so poignantly notes, we’re not the only occupants of this planet, but solely we have now the ability to decide on life, not dying? When will we ever study?
Jane Drucker, Studio Metropolis
