To the editor: The president couldn’t have completed a greater job of portraying our nation and its management in a ugly method than in how he behaved throughout his tackle to the annual United Nations convocation (“Trump calls local weather change ‘the best con job ever’ in combative U.N. speech,” Sept. 23).
There was no diplomacy, deference or respect supplied to any consultant of the nations assembled. President Trump was alternately indignant, belligerent, insulting, condescending and boastful. The message he delivered could possibly be summarized as, “America first, final and all the time, and the hell with all of you.” If that feels like an exaggeration, he informed the U.N. that “your nations are going to hell.”
His lack of respect and disparagement of the myriad people who acknowledge the menace that’s posed to the world as a consequence of man-made modifications within the local weather was a shame, Trump referring to those that acknowledge the problem as “silly individuals.”
What a worldwide embarrassment for america.
Oren Spiegler, Peters Township, Pa.
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To the editor: In his tackle to the U.N. Basic Meeting, Trump portrayed local weather agreements as a “globalist idea” that forces profitable nations to “inflict ache on themselves.”
This framing is deeply deceptive. The true “ache” comes from failing to behave: fires, floods, meals shortages and widespread financial disruption should not summary dangers, however lived realities that may worsen with out emissions reductions.
Worldwide agreements, removed from being acts of self-punishment, are acts of solidarity and recognition of widespread accountability. Industrialized nations, who constructed their prosperity on fossil fuels, have each the capability and the duty to guide the transition.
Removed from a burden, this shift is a chance — clear power industries already create hundreds of thousands of jobs, whereas preserving habitability for future generations.
Rejecting cooperation as a result of it’s “globalist” ignores the truth that the ambiance has no borders. A politics of denial and isolation could sound defiant, however it leaves us all weaker within the face of this shared disaster.
Terry Hansen, Milwaukee
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To the editor: After I examine individuals denying local weather change, it makes me marvel in the event that they even know what it’s. I’m not positive if our president is aware of the distinction between climate and local weather. I’m not positive if he may even clarify the greenhouse impact.
Regardless, the concept that 8 billion individuals on Earth should not affecting our planet’s ambiance is ludicrous. The opening within the ozone layer is only one good instance.
Each time I see a denial like this, I simply marvel that now we have so many individuals in energy who’re so uneducated (or willfully ignorant) and can ignore what is occurring to our planet as a consequence of local weather change.
Morris Scoggin, Ventura
