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Is Delta destined for
loss of life, tunnel or not?
Your current op-ed “Delta tunnel is simply too dangerous to bend environmental guidelines” (Web page A6, June 21) articulates views of many devoted people and organizations who’ve labored to “Save the Delta.” They deserve reward, very like those that bravely banded collectively to “Save the Bay” in an earlier period.
On my pc monitor is the Nationwide Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration’s “Sea Degree Rise Viewer.” It reveals what will likely be occurring to the Delta within the subsequent a number of many years. The image that emerges is that, with or with out the tunnel, it should develop into a progressively brackish sea with a profoundly modified ecology.
Up within the Sierras our heritage forests, careworn by drought, warmth waves, bark beetles and fires, are present process large change attributable to local weather change. A lot of that is already baked in and we’re listening to about “zombie” forests. One wonders if the Delta warrants zombie standing. What are the coverage implications?
David Cain
Los Altos
HCA should give county
time to seek out new beds
Will our most weak be deserted?
In January Hospital Company of America (HCA) introduced plans to extend hospital beds at its Los Gatos Good Samaritan Hospital facility by over 50%. Nice information for our neighborhood. In Could HCA introduced the closure of its 18-bed Mission Oaks Behavioral Well being (BH) facility. Exceedingly unhealthy information for our neighborhood.
HCA states that “It has been tough to safe and maintain doctor and specialty clinicians (LCSWs, therapist, and so forth.)” That is true for the entire behavioral well being suppliers in our county. When HCA acquired the Good Samaritan amenities within the Nineties, together with the Mission Oaks BH campus, it included a dedication “to deal with the entire particular person (physique thoughts and spirit).” HCA, a big, vastly profitable for-profit supplier of well being care companies should not be permitted to remove psychiatric beds till the residents of Santa Clara County and regional counties have ample time to switch them.
Harold Brown
Sunnyvale
Give individuals complete fact
on homelessness
Re: “Most homeless individuals misplaced housing whereas right here” (Web page A1, June 22).
The story by Ethan Varian and Tarini Mehta on homelessness in California leads me to precisely the other conclusion the USF research stories. They are saying that some 25%-30% of the homeless within the Bay Space moved right here after dropping their properties. Since there are some 38,000 homeless within the Bay Space, which means about 10,000 individuals arrived within the Bay Space already homeless.
It is usually telling that Dr. Margot Kushel, the writer of the research, admits that she has an agenda. She needs to “take the rhetoric down” and current knowledge that may cease us from writing off homelessness as the results of issues in different states. However she dodged an important query: How many individuals come to California with dependancy/psychological sickness points and develop into homeless inside a 12 months of arriving right here?
Telling us the reality about this doesn’t imply we will likely be heartless — simply higher knowledgeable.
Charles Albert
San Jose
State wants to check
science earlier than spending
Re: “Lawmakers are readying $15B ‘local weather bond’” (Web page A1, June 25).
California is being requested to vote on whether or not to spend billions to defend the state towards the consequences of local weather change. One of many measures that may undoubtedly be raised is thinning the forest to forestall wildfires. Not solely is that this only a strategy to endorse logging mature timber, however some gasoline discount tasks additionally make issues worse by decreasing wind resistance in firestorms, rising the temperature of the forest ground and inspiring flammable underbrush.
If we are attempting to guard individuals, gasoline discount must be inside 100 ft of a neighborhood, not in stands of mature forest, which have been confirmed to be extra hearth resistant than monoculture clear-cuts. These efforts have to happen concurrently with defensible house measures/making properties inflammable.
California must take a deep take a look at the science of wildfire earlier than making use of its funding.
Janet Doherty
Sacramento
Assist telehealth
for veterinary care
If handed, California Meeting Invoice 1399 will allow veterinarians to make use of communication applied sciences to supply take care of animals when acceptable.
