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S.J. forest administration
plan is disappointing
Thanks for calling consideration to our metropolis’s dwindling and unbalanced tree cover in your Jan. 10 article “San Jose dropping tons of of acres of bushes annually.” (Web page A1) Throughout this local weather disaster, planting as many bushes as potential is a no brainer, since bushes take in carbon from the ambiance, present shade, and reduce the city warmth island impact.
The unimaginable disparity between neighborhoods is appalling. I’m so disillusioned within the metropolis’s Neighborhood Forest Administration Plan, which didn't meaningfully have interaction East San Jose residents or organizations like Our Metropolis Forest, and left almost $460,000 on the desk. And $210,600 for a measly 250 bushes? Our Metropolis Forest might do higher. As a member of Moms Out Entrance Silicon Valley, I urge San Jose so as to add city reforestation to the Local weather Good plan. Tree upkeep should even be addressed, as many householders can't afford the fee. Different cities pay for this; why doesn’t San Jose?
Susan Butler-Graham
Moms Out Entrance Silicon Valley
San Jose
Make combating local weather
change your mission
That is in response to Wendy Chou’s Jan. Jan. 12 Letter to the Editor about one’s native impression on local weather change (“Native actions can have huge impression on warming,” Web page A6).
A yr in the past I couldn’t let you know what a Local weather Motion Plan was, and I've been a local weather activist for 15 years. So I made a decision to get educated by Al Gore to grow to be a “Local weather Actuality Chief.” Coupled with this information, I felt morally obligated to avoid wasting the planet for future generations. I dwell in Campbell the place my son lately requested, “Will I be alive when it falls aside as a result of people inflicting local weather change?” It seems that Campbell is one in every of three cities of the 15 cities in Santa Clara County that doesn’t have a Local weather Motion Plan, which is a metropolis’s plan to handle our current local weather emergency.
It’s my mission and anybody who needs to affix me, to get a daring plan to avoid wasting our future.
Sean Mendelson
Campbell
Loads of issues
want surplus spending
So, we have now this huge sum of money, which the politicians are fortunately wanting ahead to spending.
What we don't have is a dependable water provide, first rate roads, a workable plan to take care of the horrible and worsening homeless state of affairs, and what's left over (if any) ought to return to the actual house owners, the taxpayers.
Lots of the dams are in vital want of restore and we additionally might use some new ones as our present water provide depends closely on precipitation which is unpredictable and appears to be getting worse as a result of local weather change. The roads within the Bay Space are despicable, corresponding to third-world nation roads. Homeless folks might be discovered in every single place, in metropolis parks, below freeways, city sidewalks.
These points ought to be addressed in new and artistic ways in which might not be elegant, politically right, however workable and useful.
Peter Ligeti
San Jose
Lurching towards autocracy,
our democracy is in peril
We're now not a rustic of political conservatives and liberals. Hiding behind the guise of particular person rights and freedoms, many people are paradoxically embracing totalitarianism.
Unwittingly, an intermingling of the fed-up, the detached and the idealistic social “scientists” (God bless them.) present cowl for the self-centered political cowards and the delusional Trumpers to push the nation towards a “benevolent” autocracy, thereby putting our democratic republic within the palms of those that, behind the scenes, carve it as much as go well with their private fiscal and energy needs, wishes, appetites, thirsts, cravings, itches, and lusts (choose a number of).
Jim Hamm
Los Gatos
To defend democracy,
write leaders, not editors
Those that know the reality concerning the hazard to our democracy worth letters that commiserate, yea, corroborate on that hazard from Trump Republicans. However Letters to the Editor are misdirected or second-best in liberal California.
Letters, emails, cellphone calls or voice messages have to be directed to federal authorities officers — in help and gratitude to these defending democracy (Reps. Benny Thompson, Liz Cheney et al); in criticism of right-wingers for selling the Massive Lie (Reps. Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, take your choose); and to encourage wise, reasonable Republicans to do the best factor (Sens. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse).
Michael Fallon
Santa Clara
Was White worry behind
assault on Capitol?
It appears to me, most White folks in America at this time fall into one in every of two classes:
Kind 1 White individuals are afraid of “folks of shade” (PoC) gaining political energy. Kind 2 White individuals are deathly afraid of PoC gaining political energy. However, Kind 1 White folks understand they are going to proceed to do effectively even when PoC achieve political energy so long as we proceed to function the nation as a liberal democracy. Kind 2 White folks imagine it to be an existential drawback if PoC achieve political energy, so they're prepared to scuttle the democracy to maintain that from taking place.
Kind 2 White folks select energy over democracy. It was Kind 2 White individuals who assaulted the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Garey Johnson
Redwood Metropolis