Letter: The climate crisis is urgent and demands our action and attention

To the editor,

Hundreds of millions of Americans and the entire planetary population are on a collision course with the planetary reality of catastrophic climate change.

The reality of our human-caused climate crisis is not abstract and is poised to impact us at some future date and time. Climate disaster is with us now and is getting more emergent by the day. What’s horrifying to all sentient life is that we have elected and put in charge of the world’s greatest power and contributor to climate catastrophe a narcissist who denies wholesale the crisis and realities of climate destruction. Donald Trump wants to “Drill, baby, drill,” as the planet faces newer and deadlier climate-related disasters on what is becoming a daily basis.

There are no words to describe a man who, in the midst of this existential crisis, chooses to pursue expanded oil drilling and exploration with the goal of maximizing profit for a chosen few. Trump has never expressed any respect, care or concern for nature, the creation, the gift of life.

We Americans need to understand that this crisis and challenge will test us in ways unimagined. We are going to have to fight and demand rapid and immediate decarbonization while we come to terms with a climate-changed country and planet.

All reasoned and caring Americans need to prioritize their efforts in every facet of the climate crisis.

This is not a liberal or conservative mandate or cause. This is an environmental crisis that is unrivaled in human history. Minimizing and denying the realities will simply doom human civilization. There is a way out and involves both global recognition of this planetary crisis and terminating with urgency those industries, that if left unchecked, will eventually leave the planet inhabitable for human life.

Love, respect and preserve nature. We must!

Chuck Goyette
Red Lake Falls, Minnesota