Aug. 28, 2025 7 AM PT
To the editor: Based on a UC Berkeley/Los Angeles Occasions ballot, California Republicans must step outdoors and examine the climate (“California voters undecided in 2026 governor’s race, but prefer Newsom over Harris for president in 2028,” Aug. 26). Only one% contemplate local weather change and the atmosphere an excellent concern. Based on a study within the Science Advances journal from College School London, 91,000 untimely deaths per yr in america will be attributed to air air pollution from oil and fuel, along with 10,350 preterm births and 216,000 new instances of childhood bronchial asthma.
Communities of coloration endure probably the most from fossil gasoline air pollution attributable to location. Historic racial redlining concentrated obtainable housing for folks of coloration close to factories and refineries and adjoining to freeways that pollute the air with the byproducts of burning fossil fuels. Whereas the best burden of this air pollution falls on these communities, the magnitude of well being influence cited within the research must be an excellent concern for all Individuals.
In our present political scenario, and till Republicans (and extra Democrats) see fossil gasoline air pollution together with the ensuing local weather change as a critical and lethal well being subject, we is not going to take the pressing and substantive actions wanted to deal with the existential local weather disaster.
Joe McLaughlin, Los Angeles
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To the editor: At a look, the graph on this article makes it appear to be an enormous portion of Californians (73% of the Republicans) assume the nation is headed in the correct route below President Trump (“On U.S. direction under Trump, Californians split sharply along partisan lines, poll finds,” Aug. 27).
Nonetheless, in response to the Public Policy Institute of California, solely 25.2% of Californians are registered Republicans. Even when each one in all them authorized of what Trump is doing, that will barely change the truth: Solely 26% of Californians are happy to be residing in Trump’s America. To name this a “break up” is downright foolish.
Janice Blake, Manhattan Seashore
