To the editor: What a shock, business execs knew way back of the hazards of microplastics (“Industry executives knew for decades that microplastics were infiltrating the human body,” Oct. 26). It’s identical to how Exxon and Mobil knew decades ago that our dependancy to fossil fuels would trigger local weather catastrophe, the consequences of which we’re simply starting to really expertise.
Whereas the Los Angeles Occasions experiences on this, it additionally informs us that Gov. Gavin Newsom stepped again from his daring local weather agenda due to “affordability” (“Idealism vs. affordability: How high gas prices and Trump forced Newsom to recalibrate his climate agenda,” Oct. 23). At what level are the short-term income for companies and billionaires not definitely worth the destruction that they’re inflicting to our planet and all who dwell right here, people included?
Possibly The Occasions might report additional on the wonderful advances being made in China and all around the world to fight the destruction of our planet, reasonably than presenting this as if it’s all inevitable.
Leslie Simon and Marc Bender, Woodland Hills
