Letters to the editor: The warmer, more expensive world ahead if we don’t stop using fossil fuels

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The warmer, more expensive world that awaits us if we don’t stop using fossil fuels

letters to the editor

March 22, 2023

About the publisher: I appreciate your editorial exhortation to reduce fossil fuel use much faster in light of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel’s recent report on climate change. Perhaps it would help to tell the naysayers how bad they are hurting their wallets since many people care more about money than anything else.

Here are just a few examples of what will happen as 110-degree days become more frequent:

– All food around the world will cost more, as excessive heat will cause farmers to have limited water, shorter working days, and they will need new remote farmland, which will increase transportation costs.

– Cheap products from abroad become more expensive because the producers have to air-condition their plants so that the workers do not die from the heat.

– Property insurance premiums will increase drastically due to more destructive weather conditions.

The motto for fossil fuels should be “You pay now and pay later.”

Edward Dignan, Long Beach

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About the publisher: The Times makes a pious appeal to officials at all levels of government to do all they can to dismantle the dangerous fossil fuel machine.

Why not lead by example? The Times editors must disclose what its members are doing to combat climate change. How many of you drive electric cars, only use electronic devices, don’t eat meat or never take a plane?

If you want to lead the conversation, show them how to walk (or take public transportation).

Gerry Swider, Sherman Oaks.

About the publisher: What will it take to propel us at the pace needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change? Everyone will need to speak, vote, demonstrate and write, paint, shout and take action for climate action.

Don’t thank activists for what they do to become activists. I wouldn’t want your legislators to do anything to influence them via text and email. Don’t just ask yourself what you can do individually and collectively to figure it out and do it.

Only if we all actively contribute will those responsible do what is necessary.

Judith Trumbo, La Caada Flintridge

Source: LA Times

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