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Fossil fuels have
improved people’ lives
The anti-fossil gas article by UCLA pupil Anna Novoselov (“Local weather change stakes are huge for Era Z,” Web page A6, Aug. 4) offers us the identical drained doom and gloom of world extinction that’s been threatened, however unrealized for many years.
The show sort, “A Livable Planet,” is ironic as a result of it has been fossil fuels which have made our planet “livable.” Eighty % of all our vitality comes from fossil fuels and it’s what has made it attainable for the human race to flourish.
Individuals all around the world rely upon cost-efficient, accessible, reliable fossil fuels for heating, cooking, medical care, transportation and simply surviving.
Jay Todesco
Harmony
Numbers give fuller
image of Trump years
In her letter of Aug. 11 (“Biden’s wins pale in comparison with Trump’s,” Web page A6) Beth Elliot paints a rosy image of Donald Trump’s presidency. Nevertheless, she is speaking about Trump’s first three years earlier than the pandemic or warfare in Ukraine. Most of what she attributes to Trump, the sturdy economic system, markets up, inflation beneath management, gasoline costs being low, border crossings down, crime decrease, occurred beneath Barack Obama. Obama, Trump and Biden have all aggressively confronted China.
Trump’s numbers, like most presidents, present some good and a few not-so-good. Below Trump, the economic system misplaced 2.9 million jobs. The variety of folks missing medical health insurance rose by 3 million. The federal debt held by the general public went up, from $14.4 trillion to $27 trillion. Unlawful immigration elevated. Apprehensions on the Southwest border rose 14.7% in contrast with 2016. Coal manufacturing declined 26.5%, and coal-mining jobs dropped by 16.7%. Manufacturing was down and the homicide fee rose to the very best degree since 1997.
Frank Grygus
San Ramon
Trump accomplishments
aren’t so fairly
Re: “Biden’s wins pale in comparison with Trump’s,” Web page A6, Aug. 11:
It appears that evidently Beth Elliot believes Donald Trump single-handedly enabled a robust economic system, saved inflation at bay, lowered gasoline costs, was a whiz at worldwide relations, and was the grand negotiator within the Center East. I problem Elliot to quote one coverage enacted by Trump that led to this Utopian imaginative and prescient.
It’s outlandishly naïve to carry Joe Biden liable for a shaky international economic system and provide chain failures led to by a pandemic, which Trump downplayed for nearly a yr. Likewise, to carry Biden liable for inflation and excessive gasoline costs largely because of the warfare in Ukraine is utter nonsense.
Trump’s accomplishments: Convincing 46% of the inhabitants that he’s not a felony. Inciting an rebellion that breached the doorways of the Capitol. Bringing a few political divide on this nation like nobody earlier than him.
Michael Meneghetti
Nice Hill
Grassroots help
bought invoice via Senate
These hoping to protect a livable world for ourselves, our youngsters and our grandchildren can discover a lot to have a good time within the local weather provisions of the Inflation Discount Act not too long ago handed within the U.S. Senate. The invoice, now awaiting passage within the Home, accommodates an enormous funding – $369 billion – in low-carbon applied sciences and is anticipated to scale back greenhouse gasoline emissions 40% beneath 2005 ranges by 2030.
With these insurance policies in place, the USA will embark on a transformational journey to wean ourselves off the fossil fuels driving local weather change, and within the course of take away air air pollution that sickens tens of millions of People and inflicts billions of {dollars} in harm to our economic system.
This breakthrough on local weather laws was made attainable by grassroots help that was missing in earlier “contained in the Beltway” efforts. Residents’ Local weather Foyer generated greater than 200,000 letters and telephone calls to members of Congress.
Abe Mazliach
Fremont
Thiessen can’t run
from the reality ceaselessly
Re. “How FBI blundered in going after Trump,” Web page A7, Aug. 11:
I’ve to confess I’m starting to take pleasure in studying Marc Thiessen as a result of after I do, I hear Ronald Reagan saying, “There you go once more.”