Clyde Burnett, Peak to Peak. Our federal administration and congressional leaders have been elected to act and speak for us. Those in control have supported other lobbies and have failed to act against our clear and present danger of climate change. We have become an international threat to those who must endure triple digit temperatures, destructive storms and wildfires. Non-thinking citizens must revise acceptance of words that violate humanitarian needs. We all have a duty to reject acts and statements that do not support the physical and moral needs of our humanity.  

The racial remarks made by our leaders support the thoughts and actions of sick individuals who are permitted to gain the capacity to become a danger to friends and neighbors.    

Our news and social media say, “Ain’t it awful?” and continue to broadcast such statements. Our desire for appropriate gun laws are repeated but ignored.

The Universal Laws of Nature are effective and continually enforced. The political and economic policies of humans must coexist. The recent debates of democratic candidates have treated climate change as if it is comparable, or of less importance, than scandals. There have been no references to Nature’s Laws nor to the scientists who have devoted their lives to making us aware. The scheduled time spent on climate change is about equal to that allotted for commercials.  

Meanwhile, we continue to trap the Earth’s infrared energy in an increasing imbalance. Our overdraft is obvious. Just during July, the Greenland ice melt moved 197 billion tons of water into the Atlantic to interfere with the Gulf Stream and heighten the tides in the cities on our eastern shores.

And you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!

(Originally published in the August 22, 2019, print edition of The Mountain-Ear.)