Sept. 25, 2025 5 AM PT
To the editor: The president couldn’t have executed a greater job of portraying our nation and its management in a ugly manner than in how he behaved throughout his handle to the annual United Nations convocation (“Trump calls climate change ‘the greatest con job ever’ in combative U.N. speech,” Sept. 23).
There was no diplomacy, deference or respect supplied to any consultant of the nations assembled. President Trump was alternately offended, belligerent, insulting, condescending and boastful. The message he delivered might be summarized as, “America first, final and all the time, and the hell with all of you.” If that feels like an exaggeration, he advised the U.N. that “your nations are going to hell.”
His lack of respect and disparagement of the myriad people who acknowledge the risk that’s posed to the world on account of man-made modifications within the local weather was a shame, Trump referring to those that acknowledge the problem as “silly individuals.”
What a worldwide embarrassment for america.
Oren Spiegler, Peters Township, Pa.
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To the editor: In his handle to the U.N. Normal Meeting, Trump portrayed local weather agreements as a “globalist idea” that forces profitable nations to “inflict ache on themselves.”
This framing is deeply deceptive. The actual “ache” comes from failing to behave: fires, floods, meals shortages and widespread economic disruption should not summary dangers, however lived realities that can worsen with out emissions reductions.
Worldwide agreements, removed from being acts of self-punishment, are acts of solidarity and recognition of widespread duty. Industrialized nations, who constructed their prosperity on fossil fuels, have each the capability and the duty to guide the transition.
Removed from a burden, this shift is a chance — clear vitality industries already create hundreds of thousands of jobs, whereas preserving habitability for future generations.
Rejecting cooperation as a result of it’s “globalist” ignores the fact that the environment has no borders. A politics of denial and isolation might sound defiant, nevertheless it leaves us all weaker within the face of this shared disaster.
Terry Hansen, Milwaukee
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To the editor: After I examine individuals denying local weather change, it makes me surprise in the event that they even know what it’s. I’m not certain if our president is aware of the distinction between climate and local weather. I’m not certain if he might even clarify the greenhouse impact.
Regardless, the concept 8 billion individuals on Earth should not affecting our planet’s environment is ludicrous. The outlet within the ozone layer is only one good instance.
Each time I see a denial like this, I simply marvel that we have now so many individuals in energy who’re so uneducated (or willfully ignorant) and can ignore what is going on to our planet on account of local weather change.
Morris Scoggin, Ventura
