Climate connection

Re: “Journalists’ job is to report; policymakers’ job is to fix,” Other Views, Friday:

I am very supportive of what columnist Ruben Navarrette Jr. said, but I’m also amazed that he doesn’t seem to listen to his own advice. He correctly states: “It is my job to tell you that you’re in a fix and maybe explain how you got into that fix, but not to find you a way out.”

Navarrette describes a journalist’s duty correctly. But he isn’t the only thoughtmonger who disregards it. Fact is, rarely have I heard anything helpful about the migration issue from anyone who can see the big picture.

Does nobody ask, “What’s changed globally that is pushing Africans out of Syria into Europe and South Americans out of Guatemala?” I can’t say it enough. The question should be: “What’s changed?” Is it population growth? Is it technology?

Aren’t they having a lot more droughts and a lot more floods from hurricanes? We’ve heard about urban corruption and gangs. Wouldn’t that follow as more pack the city from rural areas?

Can it be that simple? Can’t we call it “climate migration”? about a mass shooting, please don’t use a picture of the killer.

Just looking at a photo of a murderer brings feelings of disgust and revulsion. People like that do not need their pictures splashed across newspapers again and again. Their faces and names need to fade away in history.

There have been so many mass killings in America; all we need to know is where and when to distinguish which one it was. Some of these people did what they did to “make a name for themselves” — and by denying them the notoriety, we can exercise at least a little control over the horrible aftermath.