To the editor: I write letters every day — to my representatives, to the editors, to my family and friends — attempting to elucidate the inconvenient reality and the menace therein (“Heat domes, wildfires, floods and drought. Where’s the outrage?,” June 26). My representatives are practically fully deaf to the difficulty. 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 Instances acknowledges that numerous its readers are considering local weather change. The outrage is right here, on the stage of the person. We desperately desire a chief of the individuals who will really 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 surprise that focus is pulled by the cult of persona. That’s intentional: a well-documented manipulation of media. The narrative of the strongman is an interesting bedtime story — it helps us sleep at evening by taking away our personal duty. “Don’t fear, you’ll by no means need to vote once more, I’ve received you,” he says, feeding us right into a furnace.
Planetary physics will be scary as a result of it’s so huge and complicated, nevertheless it’s additionally extraordinarily hopeful in the event you cease to consider it. The one factor in danger when the world transitions to renewable power is monopoly. Progress requires and features a complicated range of stakeholders invested in wholesome outcomes. All of us want a seat on the desk.
Pam Brennan, Newport Seashore
