Dear Editor,
To the person who wrote in the Readers’ Column about the supposed hypocrisy of the 400,000 people who marched to demand action on climate change – you sound like one of several folks who come right up in clean energy activists’ faces, telling us to get rid of our iPhones when we don’t have them, chastising us on our use of natural gas when we don’t use it or use nearly none, and criticizing our clothes that you say are made from fossil fuel, when they aren’t, or they were, but they are hand-me-downs, ready to be worn until threadbare.
Yet, sometimes you’re right. I too get frustrated when activists for clean energy don’t walk their talk. With a carbon tax and dividend back to the people, we’d all be on the same low-carbon playing field and everyone would “get it”.
I do request that instead of false accusations or even true ones, you consider fostering a conversation and learn how people are protecting their air, water, and land by what they do. This isn’t always easy in this fossil-fuel addicted world with its paid off politicians that support the addiction.
But in spite of the roadblocks, many of us are living low-carbon lives. We can all learn together. We must, if we care about our children.
Respectfully,
Gerri Wiley
Owego, N.Y.
