Editor,
In “California’s perpetual fire season,” in the Thursday, Aug. 2, edition of the Daily Journal, the author is right that climate change is worsening the fire season in California and that we need the political will to find solutions. How do we find the political will to reduce carbon emission in this unique political climate?
A recent New York Times article (“Actually, Republicans do believe in climate change” published Saturday, July 28) reported that in two national surveys, most Republicans agree that climate change is caused by human activity and that reducing carbon emission would mitigate the problem. But in our intensely tribal partisan system, climate change and its solutions have been branded as a Democratic issue, and that simply nixes it for Republicans. Almost no one wants to break rank.
In my lifetime, civil rights, equal pay, environmental protections and same-sex marriage legislation have all been passed. They all involved key stakeholders getting behind the issue, influenced by their voters, the press and the culture.
Over 5 million Republicans reside in California and they are equally impacted by wildfires. It’s crucial now for the news media, our elected representatives in Congress (Jackie Speier, Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris) and all of us voters to start talking about carbon solutions.
Virginia Fleming
San Mateo
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(1) comment
Well said! I agree with the letter-writer. Meanwhile, the upcoming Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco will feature lots of innovative thinking about how to curb greenhouse gas emissions at a local and regional level.
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