Environment adjustment and also severe warmth are triggering fatalities. What are we mosting likely to do concerning it?
Letters to the Editor
Aug. 1, 2023
To the editor: Congratulations to Robin Abcarian for mentioning that environment adjustment is not a partial problem. Countless Americans struggling with severe warmth stay in red and also blue states alike. Currently the inquiry is, what are we mosting likely to do concerning it?
The swiftest, most reliable means to reduce carbon discharges is to place a cost on carbon. Consider the cigarette tax obligation and also exactly how successfully that minimized smoking cigarettes. Several researchers, economic experts and also organizations sustain difficult carbon discharges. Returning the earnings to American households will certainly both support us from the resulting small power rate rises
surges
and also make it possible for political assistance from Democrats and also Republicans alike.
Kathy Seal, Santa Monica
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To the editor: Abcarian is utilizing the warmth to make her very own political anti-GOP declaration. As she mentions, warmth is an unnoticeable awesome. Yet annually extra individuals pass away because of severe cold. And also if Abcarian can approve that government
OSHA
regulations
from the Occupational Security and also Health And Wellness Management
do not require to be supplemented with neighborhood regulations in components of Texas, which Gov. Greg Abbott is not looking for to murder outside employees in his state, after that perhaps we can make development on the conversation.
Bob Filacchione, Greenville, S.C.
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