To the editor: It ought to be clear that efforts to legislate the real and dangerous issue of climate change through processes that drive up the price of power will not be acceptable to the populace. Power is the important constructing block of our economic system, and its value drives the price of every little thing else, disproportionately affecting these with much less to start with.
Because the election confirmed, voters will take a harmful demagogue over excessive power costs.
We are able to solely hope to innovate our manner out of the local weather disaster in response to the adjustments which can be coming. We have to use nuclear energy (each fission and fusion) to offer low cost, clear power within the U.S. and the world.
Whereas an actual fusion answer continues to be a long time away, it’s not too late for a Manhattan- or moonshot-type mission to shorten that timeline. Had Democrats provided that kind of imaginative and prescient on this election, we could have seen completely different outcomes.
Oliver Barnett, Palmdale
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To the editor: Nobody is speaking or writing about the true elephant not within the room, however on the market on our planet. That’s the large menace to humankind: local weather change.
Neither candidate mentioned a lot about what’s in retailer for the inhabitants within the not-so-distant future. However we’re already experiencing, studying of and listening to about disasters on this and different international locations — hovering warmth, cataclysmic fires, cataclysmic floods, enormous twister outbreaks and extra.
The entire world skilled the plague of COVID-19, with a lot dying. The 4 horsemen are saddled up, able to trip. So, from which determine did frightened people search safety? A joyful, all-embracing lady, or an alpha male?
Duh.
Margo Kasdan, Seal Seaside
