No climate crisis, reasonable GOP: What was better 50 years ago
To the editor: Jonah Goldberg makes a great argument that the majority Individuals are higher off than 50 years in the past. Nevertheless, there may be one important a part of our lives that could be a menace to everybody, and that’s the local weather disaster.
We and your complete planet had been a lot better off 50 years in the past. This was simply in regards to the time that the oil trade began mendacity in regards to the influence of carbon dioxide emissions.
Fifty years from now, will there even be a inhabitants to look again on nostalgically?
Ann Sturman, Westlake Village
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To the editor: Whereas I’ve little to disagree with in Goldberg’s column concerning nostalgia, I want to level out his examples of issues which can be higher now than 50 years in the past — cleaner air and water, safer automobiles and fewer accidents and deaths on the job — are primarily the outcomes of presidency regulation.
We now have the Environmental Safety Company and the Occupational Security and Well being Administration.
Simply assume what our meals can be like with out the Meals and Drug Administration.
Oh sure, we are able to all wax nostalgic and return to the early twentieth century, when Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” dropped at the nation’s consideration the hazardous and unsanitary situations of the nation’s meat trade. His chilling e book prompted Congress to create the federal company that finally grew to become the FDA.
Authorities regulation isn’t so unhealthy, except you want listeria.
Dean Okrand, Sherman Oaks
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To the editor: Goldberg’s column, I got here to a useless cease once I learn, “Individuals are richer in the present day than a long time in the past.”
I may be nostalgic about just a few issues, together with when within the Nineteen Sixties I might have a part-time job, pay the hire (I had a roommate to assist), put gasoline in my clunker and go to UCLA for $67 1 / 4.
Who can try this in the present day? Now, many Individuals have a adverse internet price, and 40% of us don’t have the financial savings to cowl an emergency that will value $400.
I’m additionally nostalgic for lawmakers like Republican Sen. David Durenberger of Minnesota, who chaired a subcommittee on local weather change in 1985. The subcommittee referred to as witnesses similar to Carl Sagan and different distinguished scientists.
Durnenburger ready for the listening to by studying books and papers on the topic and said in his opening remarks that the greenhouse impact needs to be referred to as “climatic destruction.”
Sure, I’m nostalgic for some issues.
Wayne Morgan, Ventura
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To the editor: Goldberg is right that many facets of our lives are higher than 50 years in the past, however one is immeasurably worse — the Republican Occasion.
Half a century in the past, GOP leaders satisfied a defiant Richard Nixon to resign the presidency in mild of the irrefutable proof of his guilt that will result in his impeachment and elimination.
Now, Republicans deny plain info and proceed to help a person whose defiance is aware of no bounds, to the purpose of encouraging revolt.
Alan B. Posner, Santa Barbara
