To the editor: In accordance with a UC Berkeley/Los Angeles Occasions ballot, California Republicans must step outdoors and examine the climate (“California voters undecided in 2026 governor’s race, however desire Newsom over Harris for president in 2028,” Aug. 26). Only one% contemplate local weather change and the setting an amazing concern. In accordance with a examine within the Science Advances journal from College Faculty London, 91,000 untimely deaths per 12 months in america might be attributed to air air pollution from oil and fuel, along with 10,350 preterm births and 216,000 new circumstances of childhood bronchial asthma.
Communities of coloration undergo essentially the most from fossil gasoline air pollution attributable to location. Historic racial redlining concentrated out there housing for individuals 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 impression cited within the examine ought to be an amazing concern for all People.
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 severe and lethal well being situation, we won’t 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) suppose the nation is headed in the appropriate route beneath President Trump (“On U.S. route beneath Trump, Californians cut up sharply alongside partisan strains, ballot finds,” Aug. 27).
Nonetheless, in accordance with the Public Coverage Institute of California, solely 25.2% of Californians are registered Republicans. Even when each one among them accepted of what Trump is doing, that will barely change the truth: Solely 26% of Californians are happy to be dwelling in Trump’s America. To name this a “cut up” is downright foolish.
Janice Blake, Manhattan Seashore
