A warning on climate ‘anomalies’

To the Times:

Late last fall, I stepped out of my dorm room at Haverford College to a thick veil of fog. Within minutes my eyes began to burn and itch. Concerned and perplexed I checked the weather app on my phone and quickly discovered what I was experiencing wasn’t fog but smoke from a wildfire burning 3,000 miles away in California.

Climate “anomalies” such as the one I experienced that morning will become all the more common as we continue to indiscriminately spew toxic chemicals and greenhouse gases from dirty fossil fuel energy into the air we breathe every day.

As Pennsylvanians, Delaware County residents and human beings, we cannot and will not stand idly by as this catastrophe continues to unfold. Thankfully, many members of our state legislative bodies share in our collective sentiment and have introduced a 100 percent renewable energy bill for the future of Pennsylvania. This legislation is not only necessary to stop the worst impacts of climate change, but offers hope that Pennsylvania will become a national and global bastion of climate action.

I would like to thank Reps. Chris Quinn, Leanne Krueger-Braneky, and Greg Vitali of Delaware County for co-sponsoring the bill and I would strongly encourage fellow county Rep. Mike Zabel to follow suit and stand with a cleaner safer future. Johnluca Fenton, Haverford