To the editor: Local weather change is the largest risk dealing with us? How I want that have been true. (“Let’s not let political chaos distract us from the unfolding climate catastrophe,” 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 certainly one of whom may 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 listing might embody 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 long gone time for thought leaders to get up to the world’s most pressing risk and get an actual dialog happening learn how 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 may elevate Earth’s common temperature above the treacherous threshold of two levels Celsius by 2050.
At this degree of improve to the common world temperature, the cascade of penalties might be tragic in a world the place the inhabitants will increase to 9 billion folks.
The battle of our time is between who we’ve got change 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 occasions. However that’s not for us to determine. All we’ve got to determine is what to do with the time that’s given us.”
Could we determine properly.
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 quite tough to treat these annual conferences as significant, since these attending are clouding the skies with the exhaust from all of their personal jets flying in.
Possibly a Zoom name would have been more practical in convincing the general public of the “dire penalties of local weather change.”
Janet Polak, Beverly Hills
