Paul H. Tice’s “On Climate, The Kids Are All Wrong” (op-ed, March 13) made me, a parent and grandparent, bristle. They are as much “all wrong” as is the assertion that global warming is “highly politicized” and “still requires debate.”
Climate scientists are almost unanimous in their assessments of climate change. Why shouldn’t the kids be worried? By 2050 today’s 19-year-olds, at age 50, will have seen it all—including the willingness of current leaders either to shrug them off coldly or act to protect them.
The kids may justifiably ask: How do the costs of reducing carbon today compare to the growing costs of cleanup after megastorms and fires, to the impact of drought on agriculture and forests, to the toll of extreme heat on health and the economy, to the global insecurity caused by vast populations fleeing climate disaster areas and to the costs of finally taking on climate change when, down the road, the job will be much harder and more costly?
The House Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act of 2019 is a robust step forward, and being market-based, has bipartisan potential.
E. Marianne Gabel
Delaware, Ohio
Sen. Dianne Feinstein was ambushed by middle- and high-school students who were pushing for the Green New Deal. These students were members of the Sunrise Movement, a political movement that advocates “to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process.”
I’m not a fan of Sen. Feinstein, but she didn’t deserve the disrespectful treatment from these young, indoctrinated kids. She was polite and soft-spoken. One student whined how we only have 12 years to combat global warming.
Al Gore said in 2006 that we only had 10 years to combat global warming. The March 8 “Notable & Quotable: Warming” quotes a 1989 article from the Associated Press: “a senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.” Now the freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is saying that we now have only 12 years to save the planet. Neither of these first two predictions came true nor is it likely that Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s “sky is falling” in 12 years is going to happen, either.
There is a fine line between education and indoctrination. It appears that the Sunrise Movement prefers the latter course of action, which can be detrimental to children.
Ron Dasher
Los Angeles
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