Kathie Piccagli's eloquent letter to the editor appeared in the SF Chronicle this morning, Monday, March 30.
Prep for climate crisis
It has been heartening to see the sense of community and caring about each other generated by the COVID-19 outbreak. Most of us are going to great lengths to try to ensure others can live and thrive. Why then are we so complacent about the ravages of the climate crisis? Climate change is already causing, and will continue to cause, great societal upheaval and widespread death.
Air pollution itself already contributes to significant health problem, as well as premature deaths that are likely to exceed the deaths caused by COVID-19. Yet, we continue to support and even subsidize with our own tax dollars the extraction and burning of fossil fuels fueling the climate crisis as well as air pollution. There’s a lesson here.
We need to look at the lack of preparedness that has exacerbated the COVID-19 crisis and do more to prepare for the climate crisis that we know is here and growing. And contrary to this current novel coronavirus, this will hit our children and youth the hardest.
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