To the editor: Thanks for the fascinating and well-written report on UCLA’s annual High quality of Life Index (“Feeling miserable? You’re not alone. L.A. County residents report decade-low quality of life,” April 16).
I’m shocked that the UCLA survey didn’t ask how a lot the warming of the planet impacts Angelenos’ high quality of life.
It touches us every day: I’m turning on my air-con now within the spring, not simply the summer time. Hotter temperatures and extra intense droughts just lately (because the Los Angeles Occasions reports) engendered mud storms that disrupted the Coachella music pageant. Certainly, final month was the most abnormally hot month on report within the contiguous U.S., say the Nationwide Facilities for Environmental Info.
Absolutely this every day issue deserves a query on this in any other case complete survey. It instantly impacts our high quality of life, from the rising vitality and insurance coverage prices it produces to the underlying worry and anxiousness that makes us not wish to speak about this extensively acknowledged explanation for our wild climate.
However speak and survey about it we should, to counter President Trump’s medieval declare that local weather change is a hoax and the administration’s stepped-up marketing campaign to unfold local weather denial. Solely then can we — and Congress — do one thing to justify the optimism that the UCLA survey fortunately finds amongst Angelenos.
Kathy Seal, Santa Monica
