To the editor: The rise in the Earth's temperature is relentless and increases more and more, year after year, bringing us problems so big that they require us to change the way we live. (“And the heat keeps coming: The global temperature record was broken for the tenth consecutive month in March”, April 10)
Melting ice, rising sea levels, unstable jet streams, extreme weather, record fires, record floods, acidic oceans and desperate migrants. It means we have to give up our beloved fossil fuels, our air trips to Hawaii, and our big, juicy steaks.
Scientists who studied Earth's history warned us about all the coming attractions, and now they are coming true, only much faster than anticipated.
Fossil fuels allowed us to plunder the Earth's resources and abuse the rest of life on Earth. They allowed us to pretend, for a moment, that we make the rules.
But nature makes the rules. Even as we doubt, nature is laying the foundation for a completely new future. If we listen very carefully, maybe we can learn those rules and save ourselves.
Phil Beauchamp, Chino Hills
