Jeremiah Wall

LETTER: To fight climate change, we must rely on ourselves first

  It's time to be that guy again: with all the problems we're facing in the world in 2021, climate change is still the worst of them. From the wildfires ravaging the Pacific Northwest in late summer 2020 to the winter 2021 Texas deep freeze that left millions without power, climate disaster is accelerating. If you accept climate science and statistics (many unfortunately do not), climate change indeed remains the single biggest issue of our time. Without a functional planet, we can't effectively take on the other most important causes, like containing the COVID-19 pandemic or bridging the gaps in economic and social inequalities. That all falls flat if we don't have a functional planet to wage our most important battles on.