To the editor: Hurricane Helene flooded my brother’s house close to Tampa Bay, and I’m sure it fared worse when Milton hit. Op-ed article author Anna Jane Joyner must stretch her creativeness to style a screenplay extra horrific than what occurred in idyllic western North Carolina, the place I vacationed each summer season in childhood. (“Helene destroyed my hometown. I don’t want climate change stories of false hope,” Oct. 4)
As a doctor, I really feel a particular duty to advocate for aggressive laws to handle the well being results of a warming world, together with the psychological well being impacts that Joyner talked about (post-traumatic stress dysfunction, suicide, substance abuse and melancholy).
My response to Joyner is to specific solidarity primarily based on shared loss and re-dedicate myself to calling out misguided local weather denialism. I may also advocate for locating the political will to speed up the transition away from toxic fossil fuels.
Our nation should quickly electrify, impose a carbon-fee-and-dividend system, accomplice with each tree nonetheless standing and get out the vote for probably the most climate-forward candidates.
Gary Stewart, Laguna Seashore
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To the editor: We’re not out of the woods, but. In reality, we’ve simply put our little toe into the woods.
After I watched Al Gore within the 2006 movie “An Inconvenient Reality,” I used to be ho-hum till I noticed his graph of temperature swings rising. It conveyed a vital level: The local weather is a system that’s completely uncontrolled.
Even when we cease the manufacturing of all greenhouse gasses, proper now, the climate goes to get rather a lot worse. And it’s going to final for a lot of, a few years to come back. At this level, all we will do is make it not so unhealthy — that being, people survive.
I additionally think about that I could also be incorrect. If I’m, the options to mitigate local weather change will solely result in a a lot more healthy planet. Yeah, the financial system as we all know goes to tank, however 3% development, yr over yr, will not be sustainable.
Whether or not you consider me or not, if we implement options, the world can be a greater place. On that I stake my life.
Gregg Ferry, Carlsbad
