To the editor: I write letters day by day — to my representatives, to the editors, to my family and friends — making an attempt to elucidate the inconvenient reality and the risk therein (“Warmth domes, wildfires, floods and drought. The place’s the outrage?,” June 26). My representatives are almost fully deaf to the problem. Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff received’t hear it, Rep. Mike Levin seemingly does his greatest to disregard it, Assemblymember Tasha Boerner seems willfully ignorant, state Sen. Catherine Blakespear doesn’t make it a precedence, and Carlsbad Councilmember Melanie Burkholder impatiently listens to what’s been written off as a “liberal” trigger.
The Los Angeles Occasions acknowledges that lots of its readers are concerned with local weather change. The outrage is right here, on the degree of the person. We desperately desire a chief of the individuals who will truly lead. The place do I join?
Gregg Ferry, Carlsbad
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To the editor: Most individuals are extra conscious of political cycles than they’re of the worldwide carbon cycle, so it’s no marvel that spotlight is pulled by the cult of character. That’s intentional: a well-documented manipulation of media. The narrative of the strongman is an interesting bedtime story — it helps us sleep at night time by taking away our personal duty. “Don’t fear, you’ll by no means should vote once more, I’ve acquired you,” he says, feeding us right into a furnace.
Planetary physics could be scary as a result of it’s so massive and sophisticated, but it surely’s additionally extraordinarily hopeful should you cease to consider it. The one factor in danger when the world transitions to renewable vitality is monopoly. Development requires and features a advanced range of stakeholders invested in wholesome outcomes. All of us want a seat on the desk.
Pam Brennan, Newport Seashore
