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College students ought to
hold masks in place
It’s disheartening to see that, regardless of excessive transmission charges, so many kids are in class with out masks.
It makes me anxious to ship my older son to highschool. It looks as if a no brainer to require masks of youngsters which are indoors all day with one another, particularly when lots of these kids have youthful, unprotected siblings.
I do know it is probably not a well-liked selection, however Castro Valley Unified Faculty District ought to get up for what’s in the perfect curiosity of our group and require masks indoors.
Jessica Klein
Castro Valley
Petersen deserves place
on SRVUSD board
Michelle Petersen, a neighborhood mother, mum or dad chief and former firefighter, ought to fill the seat on the San Ramon Valley Unified Faculty District Board of Training this November that long-time trustee Ken Mintz held.
Michelle is an academic chief and advocate inside SRVUSD, most just lately as president of Alamo Elementary PTA. She cares about public training, our academics and our children. She is an efficient volunteer chief, group advocate and believes each baby deserves to really feel a way of belonging.
SRVUSD is a superb district and Michelle will work with our group to safe a top quality training for all college students. Her expertise has offered her with the abilities to navigate this function and competently signify Space 1, which incorporates stakeholders zoned for the colleges in Alamo, Danville and San Ramon. Vote for a mother who has a toddler in our district and is aware of find out how to get issues completed.
Nancy Daetz
Danville
Details level to conserving
Diablo Canyon open
Steven Chu and Jacopo Buongiorno are proper (“Diablo Canyon is secure, dependable and might battle local weather change,” Web page A6, Aug. 10). Holding the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open is crucial if California is to satisfy its local weather commitments and keep grid reliability.
Closing the plant will significantly improve the probability of blackouts. Even when plans for brand spanking new renewable era and battery storage go completely, there will likely be an influence era shortfall of 1800 megawatts in 2025. Holding Diablo open will eradicate that shortfall.
Closing the plant would significantly gradual the discount in fuel era, leading to considerably extra air air pollution and CO2 emissions. To make progress on local weather, we should hold all the prevailing carbon-free era we have now, and use renewables to switch fossil fuels as a substitute.
A majority (58%) of Californians assist conserving Diablo open. Assist is 74% within the plant’s native space.
James Hopf
Tracy
Get politics out of
local weather change battle
It’s such a tragic day when partisan politics performs such a task within the local weather change challenge.
Not one Republican voted for President Biden’s local weather and spending package deal. Does that imply Republicans don’t get scorching in 100-degree climate? Their lungs don’t understand smog and so they don’t see catastrophes round our Earth?
Democrats are additionally responsible of comparable points previously once they didn’t vote with the Republicans. Some points are simply logic.
One factor I’m sure of – although I’m a Democrat, I’ll vote for Liz Cheney if she runs for president.
Jack Gayle
Castro Valley
Let’s plan now for
coming superstorm
The East Bay Occasions studies California faces an elevated risk of a superstorm (“Prospect rises for California Superstorm,” Web page A1, Aug. 15). Their ominous warning presents two options. However there is just one. We should head for the hills.
Veteran engineer David Peterson warns, “Change the place the water goes, or change the place the persons are.” Nature loves surprises. The world realized this June 12, 1991. Twenty-six thousand survivors escaped to the ocean.
In 1991, scientists predicted when Mount Pinatubo would erupt within the Philippines. Thank God we listened. It might show to be the century’s largest volcanic eruption in a densely populated space. Shock; Storm Yunya lands and turns Pinatubo’s falling ash into cement.
The Marine Corps gave me a front-row seat to this apocalypse. Certainly, lots of of lives have been misplaced. Nevertheless, an epic sea evacuation, referred to as “Operation Fiery Vigil,” saved tens of 1000’s from a Pompeii-like destiny.
What’s predictable is preventable.
Mark R. Clifford
Moraga
With federal local weather invoice
handed, it’s state’s flip
It’s no secret that younger persons are involved about local weather change, and the way it will have an effect on our future. Nevertheless, it already impacts us now, particularly in California. We endure from excessive fires, droughts and air air pollution. Rising up, I bear in mind college being canceled from unhealthy air high quality. Sports activities have been shut down, then we couldn’t go outdoors in school, till finally, we needed to keep house as a result of the publicity to smoky skies was too dangerous, particularly for youngsters.
