All tagged Climate Change
We have a chance to bend the curve and potentially avert irreversible disastrous consequences, through changes in our individual behavior and a coordinated worldwide governmental response. We must seize this chance, for the good of all life on planet Earth.
I know that many of us in Swarthmore are concerned about the issue of climate change and hope the new administration and Congress will address this problem. Recently, I’ve had the exciting opportunity to participate in the Delaware County chapter of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby.
I believe each of us should improve the community we live in. I trust this letter will encourage neighbors in Swarthmore and neighboring communities to support the ongoing effort to have Pennsylvania join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI): a cooperative multi-state program designed to improve air quality and address climate change, which many other Northeastern states have long participated in.
At Trader Joe’s in Media three weeks ago, I could find no California dried apricots, only Turkish. “Wildfire in California,” I thought.
In his recent Letter to the Editor, ‘A sad fact of life’ (12/6), Jim Riviello contends that “Carbon dioxide levels have nothing to do with the rising temperatures,” relying instead on contrarian climate research that blames “Anything But Carbon (ABC)” — here, banned CFCs causing “fluctuations of the sun” — for our planet’s woes. By doing so, he rejects numerous, validated studies demonstrating that emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gasses from fossil fuel combustion are the drivers of climate change at rates never before seen. What I find most disturbing about Mr. Riviello’s piece, however, is the way he appears to so easily jettison those most impacted by climate change.
We have grown up hearing the words “climate change,” learning about carbon emissions and greenhouse gases in our science classes, and watching the sea levels rise. We have also seen the effects of the climate crisis devastate communities around the world. Thousands of people, many in marginalized groups, have suffered and will continue to suffer from environmental injustice, pollution, and climate change. This is a reality now, not a future problem. There is no time to waste. As young people scared for our futures, the Green New Deal gives us hope.
