“Can the rush for clean energy overcome a legacy of pollution?” (March 23, Local weather Lab) raises enormous points with the clear vitality transition. Phrases like “staggering,” “unprecedented” and “quite a lot of conscious effort” moved me as I learn the article.
However I additionally really feel the staggering and unprecedented impacts of local weather disasters that we endure recurrently now, all around the world: excessive warmth, frequent wildfires, ocean acidification with the loss of life of coral reefs, extra violent storms and devastating floods.
I hope we persuade legislators at each the state and nationwide ranges to enact efficient legal guidelines that assist us, with “quite a lot of conscious effort,” to create the clear vitality transition that we completely should make. They’ll hear if we converse up, loudly, and inform our tales to them. I consider that. And talking up is what we residents have to do in unprecedented occasions.
This can be a problem we can’t afford to disregard, simply because it’s a “staggering” problem. And I consider that.
Bobbie Morgan, Bainbridge Island
