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Solely desalination
assures drought reduction
For our droughts, it’s been tiresome to listen to the identical chorus, “construct extra dams,” as the answer. That works if we have now above-average rains to catch within the dams. However over the previous 10 years, we’ve had below-average rain for eight years. And for the previous 22 years, we’ve had the bottom rainfall whole in 1,200 years.
Desalination is the one foolproof resolution to our droughts. Sure, it'll increase individuals’s water payments, but when we don’t have sufficient water, the prices of rationing will likely be far higher. Think about the peace of thoughts if we don’t have to fret concerning the rainfall totals yearly.
Gov. Gavin Newsom ought to dedicate a few of our funds surplus to constructing giant desalination vegetation alongside the coast. As well as, Santa Clara Valley Water District wants to start out desalination tasks, earlier than we get right into a dire scenario.
Dennis Gaushell
Sunnyvale
Time to truly
restore our forests
Re. “Wildfires, local weather change put California forests at tipping level,” Web page A6, March 8:
I’m uninterested in all of the doublespeak. Restore the well being of our forests by aggressively thinning them — actually? Point out “local weather change” within the headline of an article that endorses biomass incineration, a unclean, polluting power — actually? And all this co-written by the president and CEO of the California Forestry Affiliation, which represents the pursuits of loggers. Positive, I suppose one solution to “handle forests” is to chop down timber as a result of if there are not any timber left, there’s nothing to handle.
Logging, together with thinning timber, reduces the shade offered by the forest cover, encouraging drier and warmer circumstances that exacerbate fires. Throughout California’s 2018 Camp Fireplace, for example, the blazes torched by way of closely logged areas with additional velocity and depth. We have to take motion to guard California’s forests, banning clearcutting, saving timber, and utilizing language that actually displays what we imply.
Caroline Harris
Menlo Park
Russian oil ban
is definitely worth the ache
President Joe Biden’s ban on Russian fuel is a house run. (“Will Californians pay a value on the pump?” Web page A1, March 9)
This may occasionally damage within the quick time period, however we’re hitting Russia the place it hurts. If we are able to endure the rising pains of power independence, not solely will we be serving to Ukraine, however we are able to turn into a stronger nation ourselves.
Dean Granzella
San Jose
Spike in fuel costs
as a consequence of profiteering
The entrance web page gas-price graph is spectacular (“Will Californians pay a value on the pump?” Web page A1, March 9), however how about an evidence for the fuel hike earlier than the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
Visitors was approach down throughout the pandemic … appears oil firms are as soon as once more making an attempt to recoup misplaced income on the backs of American customers and nonetheless no authorized construction to rein them in. Apparently, we now not have working state or federal antitrust legal guidelines.
Marion Baldwin
San Jose
Ukrainian president was
greater than a comic
In a latest column (“We live as soon as once more in a defining second in historical past,” Web page A6, March 9), one other in an extended string of commentators described the heroic Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a “Ukrainian comic”‘ who turned president of his nation.
When will journalists study that Zelenskyy was a lawyer earlier than he made a residing as a comic? The Russians are discovering out this man is not any joke, like one other president I may title.
Robert Pierce
Los Altos
Maintain Putin accountable
for slaughter of kids
Vladimir Putin, his supporters, and the Russian navy are solely answerable for the mass homicide and abuse of kids ensuing from Putin’s battle on Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported this week that no less than 50 youngsters had been killed earlier than the assault on the Mariupol hospital the place, he stated, many extra lay below the rubble.
A whole bunch of 1000's of kids are being terrorized as they've been pressured to flee their houses and their nation within the face of constant murderous assaults on civilians, together with on these evacuating. Thousands and thousands of others remaining within the nation with their households are experiencing ongoing terror. Many extra youngsters will likely be killed or wounded, or lose members of the family, whereas many little one survivors will expertise lifelong penalties of trauma.
The free world should put together to assist present the help wanted for these youngsters, and accountability for the perpetrators of this intentional little one abuse and homicide.
Steve Baron
Cupertino