To the editor: Within the desert Southwest, it’s clear that hovering summer time temperatures will make most of its cities uninhabitable with out air con. (“Her bed room was 100 levels throughout Phoenix warmth wave — and her A/C was out,” Aug. 3)
This downside is compounded by the continued reliance on fossil fuels for energy era and transportation. Solely 17% of Arizona’s vitality era is renewable, in contrast with 84% in South Dakota.
Though the upfront prices are excessive, Arizona ought to require each new housing improvement to generate its personal solar energy, with ample storage to energy lifesaving air con even at night time, whereas requiring all new procuring heart and different giant parking heaps to be shaded with photo voltaic panels.
Over time, these enhancements will make monetary in addition to environmental sense. A subsidy ought to be supplied for householders to improve their A/C methods to resist the pains of sustained excessive temperatures.
Jonathan Kaunitz, Santa Monica
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To the editor: Los Angeles has been spared the blistering warmth of cities like Phoenix, however let’s not child ourselves — the climate hasn’t been respectable for everybody within the metropolis.
Sure, some days we’re lucky sufficient to be protected against the morning solar because of the marine layer, however what in regards to the warmth after it burns away or days once we don’t get a layer in any respect?
Until you reside within the comfortable inexperienced neighborhoods of West L.A., you’re left extremely uncovered to the warmth due to the shortage of tree cover and vegetation, nature’s cooling system.
As town waits for a call on the potential mandate for A/C in all rental models, not all people can say that the climate has been good. Los Angeles has a significant issue with the uneven distribution of vegetation, and now officers are left to react to the difficulty fairly than stop it.
Karen Cederholm, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Your article on local weather change creating greater waves on the seashore says information present that the “sea is changing into more durable to restrain.”
No information affirmation is important to know that people have been and proceed to be exhausting to restrain. It’s not the ocean that wants restraining; it’s the habits and wishes of people, for we’re driving the destruction and altering of the Earth’s local weather.
We proceed to eat fossil fuels as if we are literally eager to self-destruct. Not even a pandemic may power us to decelerate, replicate and alter our course. We’re again to enterprise as regular in our pace, consumption and comfort.
Extra consideration is given to a film a few doll than the present, unfolding real-life blockbuster: human-driven local weather change creating an unlivable planet for ourselves and all different beings.
We as a species want restraining, not the ocean. And by we, I imply the governments of the world, the fossil gasoline corporations and their enablers, you studying this letter and me writing it.
Gina Ortiz, Claremont
