Understanding for people fleeing climate change

Re: “Climate change will force the world to play a grim game — adapt, move or die,” and “Migrant rhetoric matches current border reality,” April 10 commentaries

Pepper Trail presents a clear and compelling picture of the consequences we all, deniers included, face in dealing with the reality of climate change. The answers to what to do and where to go are few indeed. Interesting, too, is its juxtaposition with Nolan Finley’s conservative opinion piece on migration, stating that for the displaced, there is nowhere here to go.

Perhaps it is this level of unease that has created today’s insular world of earbuds, smartphones and social media and an emotional need always to be elsewhere. The open reality of “here and now” has become too near and frightening. — Robert Porath, Boulder

Thank you so much for the opinion piece (“Climate change will force the world to play a grim game — adapt, move or die.”)

We have a moral obligation to help those who are being displaced by the climate crisis, not just because it is our job to help others whenever possible, but because we (in the western world) are largely responsible for this crisis because of our continued use of fossil fuels. We need to help those who are fleeing fire, flood and other climate damage move into a place where they can survive and thrive, as we would all wish to do. If this sounds ridiculously simplistic and idealistic, it is. But for the sake of human dignity and the survival of our planet, we need to do this soon. — Susan Permut, Monument

Nolan Finley’s rant against the Biden administration’s handling of the border situation is absurd, given that the Republicans shot down the bipartisan border bill in February. Congress has been refusing to pass effective border legislation for many years because of Republican resistance, so Republicans have no credibility for being a responsible party in this area. — Bob Wood, Monument