Letter to the Editor: It’s a hoax
August 28, 2022
Some folks seem to feel everything is a hoax. Especially climate change.
Well, if climate change is a hoax, is the mega drought, the hundreds of dead
trees seen from Hwy 49 going to the Yuba Summit, the lowered lake levels,
the southwest running out of water; are these a hoax? Perhaps someone
has an answer.
Don McKechnie
Sparks and Sierraville
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Letter to the Editor: It’s not a hoax
August 29, 2022
Don, climate change is real and always has been, the real question is the
cause. I lived about 10 miles from a glacier that according to science melted
250,000 years ago. What do you suppose caused that ? The climate has
always changed and it always will, learn to adapt.
Nick Collin
Graeagle
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Letter to the Editor: Climate change or whatever you call it
August 29, 2022
I sound like a broken record, but the effects of a changing climate are not a
short-term phenomenon. Changing environment has been with us long
enough and should be a concern for everyone — believers in climate change
or not. Temperatures and our seas are rising, our forests are drying out,
dying, burning, and our air quality, water supply, and quality are suffering.
We can’t wait to address the impact of a changing climate (or “whatever you
call it”), or more rural towns like our beloved and iconic Greenville will burn
and possibly lose their character and historical significance to a bronze
plate on a Clamper monument.
Federal and state land managers’ hands have been tied for years by well-
intentioned environmental red tape. It is necessary to protect our forests,
our towns, and our health through aggressive forest management. Forest
management will require reducing environmental red tape to facilitate and
speed up the approval process, which often takes years, for widescale
vegetation management projects on national forests and parks. I know there
has been planning for more forest management and fire-wise community
activities, but what is occurring now—on the ground? Planning is essential,
but planning without action is meaningless. We should keep asking, “What
is happening now?” Our representatives should ask the same question and
take action to promote forest management and accountability to ensure our
national forests and parks act to protect our towns, forests, and people.
Along with reducing environmental roadblocks to sound forest management,
let us not forget the environmental obstacles to folks who want to rebuild
their burned homes in communities like Greenville and Grizzly Flats. Many
homes in these older towns throughout the west built without or with
minimal building codes and environmental restrictions face significant
rebuilding obstacles, including environmental remediation and insurance
costs. Longtime residents of our rural communities should be able to rebuild
affordable fire-resilient homes. Otherwise, the empty burned lots will end up
in the hands of better-heeled speculators who might not care about
maintaining the character and historical significance of our rural forest
communities.
Our changing environment is a complex and often polarizing issue. No
matter how you feel about climate change, we suffer severe impacts on our
forests, our towns, and the health of our people. To ignore or deny
“whatever you call it” is irresponsible. Doing nothing is unacceptable.
Ron Cerruti
Clayton, former Greenville resident
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its always been changing...seas are rising, lands are
falling/sinking, droughts and floods, fires, weather
erratic, famines, crops destroyed, viruses, you name it,
its hitting us.
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