Thanks to your article “Warm-up Wake-up Call” [Chicago Sun-Times, Dec. 30]. We usually consider local weather change as an issue impacting the U.S. coasts. But this text highlights that there are downsides that go effectively past nice spring-like climate loved throughout Christmas.
As our Illinois local weather continues to heat, we’ll see much more excessive rain occasions within the spring and far hotter and drier summers. The financial impacts will embody crop yield loss, costly infrastructure funding to deal with elevated storm water run-off, and Lake Michigan water degradation. The well being impacts will outcome from poorer air high quality from elevated smog and elevated incidents in tick-borne illness.
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Verified by the analysis of 14 Midwest universities, these are our “costs of doing nothing.” The “something” we will do is to name or write our congressional representatives to behave by placing a value on the carbon emissions which are warming our local weather. Bipartisan laws has been launched known as the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (HR 763) that costs carbon emissions with out harming the economic system, jobs or shoppers. Acting now will scale back prices and enhance high quality of life later.
Andrew Panelli, Homer Glen
In 2020, struggle poverty
In 2020, the United States should unveil a nationwide plan to fight poverty. It is a matter that few individuals or leaders talk about. This legislative bundle should embody provisions that crack down on predatory lending, tax cuts and incentives for these struggling most, and a public choice on the medical health insurance market. These three proposals will assist the poorest Americans and lift the usual of dwelling for us all.
As the saying goes, a rising tide lifts all ships. It will decrease the price of dwelling on a number of fronts for a overwhelming majority of the American individuals. There isn’t any method our nation can attain prosperity, well being and energy if we go away half of the nation behind. Congress should get to work earlier than another man, girl or baby suffers pointless harm. These three proposals will raise our economic system and supply our individuals much-needed hope. This is the perfect New Year’s present we may give the American individuals. We have the ability to soar towards higher days.
Henry J.H. Wilson, Barrington