To the editor: It must be clear that efforts to legislate the real and dangerous issue of climate change by way of processes that drive up the price of power will not be acceptable to the populace. Power is the important constructing block of our financial system, and its value drives the price of the whole lot else, disproportionately affecting these with much less to start with.
Because the election confirmed, voters will take a harmful demagogue over excessive power costs.
We will solely hope to innovate our manner out of the local weather disaster in response to the adjustments which are coming. We have to use nuclear energy (each fission and fusion) to offer low-cost, clear power within the U.S. and the world.
Whereas an actual fusion resolution continues to be a long time away, it’s not too late for a Manhattan- or moonshot-type challenge to shorten that timeline. Had Democrats supplied that kind of imaginative and prescient on this election, we could have seen completely 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 large 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 girl, or an alpha male?
Duh.
Margo Kasdan, Seal Seashore
