Opinion | Gleeful Over Biden’s Actions on Climate Change
01/29/2021
A reader says we finally have a leader who is willing to do more than any president has done. Also: Donald Trump’s silence; Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon; Republicans and the debt.
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To the Editor:
Re “Biden Pitches Climate Policy as a Jobs Plan” (front page, Jan. 28):
The day President Biden signed the sweeping executive orders on climate change was one of the happiest days of my life, on a par with the day I got married, the day I bought my dream home, the day I officially became an American citizen.
Exaggeration? Not when I have worked for 20 years to get our institutions to be more sustainable and advocated for policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Not when I cried thinking about all the species that have become and will become extinct. Not when I am terrified by the prospect of devastating storms and wildfires every year.
Even though we are far from winning, we have a leader who is willing to do more than any president has ever done to fight the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced. As citizens, we need to continue to put pressure on our elected officials to adopt climate-friendly policies, and to reduce carbon footprints in our own lives. No matter what we do or where we live, we all need to be climate activists as if our life depends on it, because it does.
Clara Fang Detroit The writer is student engagement director for Citizens’ Climate Lobby.
Trump’s Silence, as Lethal as His Words
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Re “U.S. Extremists Pose a Threat, Agency Warns” (front page, Jan. 28):
We should be alarmed that the Department of Homeland Security issued a national terrorism bulletin warning of the lingering potential for violence from people motivated by anti-government sentiment after Joe Biden’s election. It suggests that the riot by a mob of Trump supporters at the Capitol has set the stage for additional attacks.
There’s a cruel irony in this new threat. Donald Trump’s words and deeds in support of his overt attempt to overthrow his duly elected replacement led to the Capitol insurrection. Now the threat is his silence — never once admitting that he lost, the election was not stolen and the entire saga was made up.
Mr. Trump’s silence has paralyzed most Senate Republicans from supporting conviction. If he admitted everything was a scam, it would be easier to convict him, both because it would certify his impeachable criminality, and because it would likely deflate his mob’s anger at the Republican senators.But instead they’re afraid the Trump coup supporters will banish them from office should they vote to convict. More ominously, they’re afraid that the most delusional of that Trump base will target them for death, as they did Mike Pence.
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Opinion | Gleeful Over Biden’s Actions on Climate Change
A reader says we finally have a leader who is willing to do more than any president has done. Also: Donald Trump’s silence; Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon; Republicans and the debt.
More from our inbox:
To the Editor:
Re “Biden Pitches Climate Policy as a Jobs Plan” (front page, Jan. 28):
The day President Biden signed the sweeping executive orders on climate change was one of the happiest days of my life, on a par with the day I got married, the day I bought my dream home, the day I officially became an American citizen.
Exaggeration? Not when I have worked for 20 years to get our institutions to be more sustainable and advocated for policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Not when I cried thinking about all the species that have become and will become extinct. Not when I am terrified by the prospect of devastating storms and wildfires every year.
Even though we are far from winning, we have a leader who is willing to do more than any president has ever done to fight the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced. As citizens, we need to continue to put pressure on our elected officials to adopt climate-friendly policies, and to reduce carbon footprints in our own lives. No matter what we do or where we live, we all need to be climate activists as if our life depends on it, because it does.
Clara Fang
Detroit
The writer is student engagement director for Citizens’ Climate Lobby.
Trump’s Silence, as Lethal as His Words
To the Editor:
Re “U.S. Extremists Pose a Threat, Agency Warns” (front page, Jan. 28):
We should be alarmed that the Department of Homeland Security issued a national terrorism bulletin warning of the lingering potential for violence from people motivated by anti-government sentiment after Joe Biden’s election. It suggests that the riot by a mob of Trump supporters at the Capitol has set the stage for additional attacks.
There’s a cruel irony in this new threat. Donald Trump’s words and deeds in support of his overt attempt to overthrow his duly elected replacement led to the Capitol insurrection. Now the threat is his silence — never once admitting that he lost, the election was not stolen and the entire saga was made up.
Mr. Trump’s silence has paralyzed most Senate Republicans from supporting conviction. If he admitted everything was a scam, it would be easier to convict him, both because it would certify his impeachable criminality, and because it would likely deflate his mob’s anger at the Republican senators. But instead they’re afraid the Trump coup supporters will banish them from office should they vote to convict. More ominously, they’re afraid that the most delusional of that Trump base will target them for death, as they did Mike Pence.
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