To the editor: Local weather change is the most important menace going through us? How I want that had been true. (“Let’s not let political chaos distract us from the unfolding local weather disaster,” editorial, Nov. 22)
What’s true is that if humanity ceases to exist within the subsequent 100 years, it is not going to be due to local weather change. All of us are alive on the pleasure of a handful of leaders scattered all through the world, any considered one of whom might name an finish to the human species in a blink of an eye fixed.
That features the leaders of the U.S., Russia, China, India and Pakistan. Quickly, that checklist might embrace the leaders of North Korea and Iran — and who is aware of what number of others because the nuclear genie multiplies all through the world?
It’s gone time for thought leaders to get up to the world’s most pressing menace and get an actual dialog occurring easy methods to save the planet.
Invoice Bloomfield, Park Metropolis, Utah
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To the editor: President-elect Donald Trump’s “drill, child, drill” edict is a business-as-usual strategy to utilizing fossil fuels that can elevate Earth’s common temperature above the treacherous threshold of two levels Celsius by 2050.
At this degree of improve to the common international temperature, the cascade of penalties will probably be tragic in a world the place the inhabitants will increase to 9 billion individuals.
The battle of our time is between who we now have develop into and who we’d but be. If we can not escape the seductive pull of fossil fuels and the fabric issues they supply for us, all life is in peril.
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Fellowship of the Rings,” Frodo says, “I want it needn’t have occurred in my time.” Gandalf solutions: “So do I, and so do all who reside to see such instances. However that’s not for us to resolve. All we now have to resolve is what to do with the time that’s given us.”
Could we resolve correctly.
Phil Beauchamp, Chino Hills
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To the editor: The annual United Nations local weather convention was simply held in Baku, Azerbaijan. It’s slightly tough to treat these annual conferences as significant, since these attending are clouding the skies with the exhaust from all of their non-public jets flying in.
Possibly a Zoom name would have been simpler in convincing the general public of the “dire penalties of local weather change.”
Janet Polak, Beverly Hills
