To the editor: Jordan Thomas’ powerful and poignant op-ed article on intensifying wildfires amid accelerated fossil-fuel consumption is a must-read for each dwelling particular person.
Every one in all us is having a lifetime of beforehand unknown riches, all introduced by the burning of fossil fuels. The relentless use of fossil fuels created the monster that’s local weather change, and now will probably be our salvation.
Tax the fossil gas business and its financiers to smithereens. This dramatic motion will fund the transition to sustainable economies run on renewables and assist the households struggling losses from all excessive climate occasions. We will do that. We should do that.
We solely have to cease listening to individuals who in some way think about cash is extra necessary than the very planet that sustains us. As Thomas factors out, local weather change disasters are solely rising in depth, destruction and frequency, and these individuals want to appreciate they (and their youngsters) will both die out in an more and more broken atmosphere, or they may be part of us. These are the one two selections.
A technique or one other, we are going to cease pouring carbon dioxide into the ambiance. Mom Earth won’t allow us to destroy her.
JJ Flowers, Dana Level
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To the editor: Simply 20,000 years in the past, a lot of North America was buried below an ice sheet that reached Nebraska. Pacific Palisades now resembles cities firebombed in World Struggle II. That is the facility of the ambiance, which exceeds that unleashed in any world warfare.
U.S. leaders, influenced by oil cash, have persistently shirked their responsibility to guard us from polluters. We should marshal a nationwide mindset applicable to what we have now recognized about local weather change because the Nineteen Eighties.
Don’t be distracted or deflected by cynical nonsense. Change into a political “intensifier.” Demand that your congressional representatives ambitiously reply to local weather change, no matter how a lot the fossil gas business donates to their campaigns. Any lawmaker voting to weaken or dismantle the Inflation Discount Act ought to lose their subsequent election.
Gary Stewart, Laguna Seashore
