Dear Editor:
How ludicrous to suggest that the “climate crisis” being shoved down our throats is “hysteria.”
That would suggest that those of us taking bold steps to combat this crisis are foolish and irrational. Instead, over the past 50 years that this problem has been examined, presented, explained and reviewed, society has allowed the deniers and naysayers to set the narrative of inaction and complacency. It is time for this to stop.
Average citizens everywhere (except perhaps those addicted to Fox News) can see the horrendous effects of climate change occurring around the world, daily, with their own eyes.
How can we continue to be complacent? Surely it is time to act aggressively if we wish to ensure humanity still has a place on this planet.
The only thing that the 97 percent of scientists who accept the clear evidence of human-caused climate impacts got wrong was the speed at which these terrifying changes would occur – they are happening far faster than originally predicted. That, and perhaps the inability of the deniers to accept what they can see to be true.
Sue Braiden,
Erin