Right is wrong

Global warming, human-induced climate change, should not be a matter of partisan difference — the well-being of the Earth and its inhabitants is at stake, and a problem of such magnitude should be one that concerns us all no matter of what political outlook (“N.M. divided on climate deal pullout,” June 2).

President Donald Trump, in making the U.S. a rogue state by pulling out of the Paris accord, gave as the reason that even that modest accord is causing the U.S. economic “wounds” (which is probably false). To stop global warming would require much more extensive changes in our economic system.

Vice President Mike Pence and right-wing conservatives’ refusal to recognize the way things are is in need of explanation. And the explanation has to do with the ideological consequences of any attempt to face up to the challenge to the Earth’s well-being. Merrill Ring

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