What’s Faso’s stand on climate change?

Dear Editor: Every day, we’re pounded with bad news. The climate is overheating. There are massive social disorders, such as the Syrian civil war and tens of thousands of refugees pouring out of drought-stricken Africa.

The Trump administration seems determined to destroy the political institutions that guarantee our culture’s stability along with every vestige of decent behavior.

We feel that we’re fighting for our lives and we’re suffering under the pressure of uncertainty. Each of us has deep personal concerns that we feel must be addressed to ensure the continuation of our world as we have always known it.

Every one of these is critically important, but, in one sense, climate change is the most important of all because everything that we do takes place within the envelope of our planet. It contains everything, and without it nothing exists. If its ability to sustain human life and civilization is destroyed, everything goes with it.

Climate change is killing our planet, and its power is increasing. We know that now. There’s no longer a sustainable debate about it. The economy, jobs, human rights, tax reform, Citizens United, immigration, terrorist attacks, foreign wars, our personal lives, our history and, most poignantly for me, the lives of our children and grandchildren all demand immediate attention. But without the planet where it’s all happening, there is nothing.

This is not an extreme scenario. Science tells us it’s a very real possibility and that we’re fast approaching the point of no return.

U.S. Rep. John Faso should talk to his constituents and tell us what he plans to do about this terrible climate situation. He should do so in an open letter to all of the newspapers in the 19th Congressional District and then meet with all of us face to face at town hall meetings . Ralph Moseley Bearsville