To the editor: What number of extra tales about climate-fueled warmth waves, wildfires, droughts and floods should we learn earlier than we acknowledge the local weather disaster for what it’s — an ethical incorrect? (“Monday might need set a world report for hottest day ever. Then Tuesday broke it,” July 5)
Governments have allowed a rogue fossil gas business to devastate our lives, our livelihoods and the very way forward for human civilization. Whereas warmth waves created from their heat-trapping emissions kill 1000’s, the air air pollution alone from burning these fuels kills greater than 8 million folks yearly the world over.
Coal, oil and fuel will not be our solely vitality choices. The world’s local weather scientists have concluded that inexpensive clear vitality, like photo voltaic and wind, is available to switch these soiled fuels. The one obstacles to a clear vitality future, they are saying, are fossil gas corporations and their political allies.
Understanding the local weather disaster as immoral provides urgency to local weather motion and clarifies the answer: Cease burning fossil fuels, and deploy clear vitality as shortly as potential.
Caroline Taylor, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: July 3 of this third 12 months of the third decade of the third millennium was, unofficially, the most well liked day within the recorded historical past of the world. Then July 4 in all probability beat it.
And the Northern Hemisphere summer time has barely began. As has the third millennium — and with it the countless summer time of a brand new sizzling and warmer Anthropocene Epoch?
Gregory Wright, Sherman Oaks
