To the editor: It ought to be clear that efforts to legislate the actual and harmful concern of local weather change through processes that drive up the price of vitality usually are not acceptable to the populace. Power is the important constructing block of our economic system, and its price drives the price of all the things else, disproportionately affecting these with much less to start with.
Because the election confirmed, voters will take a harmful demagogue over excessive vitality costs.
We are able to solely hope to innovate our means out of the local weather disaster in response to the modifications which are coming. We have to use nuclear energy (each fission and fusion) to supply low cost, clear vitality within the U.S. and the world.
Whereas an actual fusion answer remains to be many years away, it’s not too late for a Manhattan- or moonshot-type mission to shorten that timeline. Had Democrats supplied that kind of imaginative and prescient on this election, we might have seen totally different outcomes.
Oliver Barnett, Palmdale
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To the editor: Nobody is speaking or writing about the actual elephant not within the room, however on the market on our planet. That’s the massive risk to humankind: local weather change.
Neither candidate mentioned a lot about what’s in retailer for the inhabitants within the not-so-distant future. However we’re already experiencing, studying of and listening to about disasters on this and different international locations — hovering warmth, cataclysmic fires, cataclysmic floods, large twister outbreaks and extra.
The entire world skilled the plague of COVID-19, with a lot dying. The 4 horsemen are saddled up, able to journey. So, from which determine did frightened people search safety? A joyful, all-embracing lady, or an alpha male?
Duh.
Margo Kasdan, Seal Seashore
