The article “WA’s drought deepens and the summer forecast offers no respite” (July 7, Local weather Lab) reads like “déjà vu over again” — and once more, and once more … Have we turn out to be so jaded that the drama, ache, dangers and prices of the recurring droughts, wildfires, flooding and agricultural threats itemized within the article have turn out to be an accustomed lifestyle? Ought to the identical article simply be reprinted each July, wishing it received’t worsen?
“Pure disasters” are now not so pure. Increasingly are straight attributable to actions we select whereas Rome burns.
But, a lot of our responses to local weather change end result from presumed negotiation between two polarized “sides.” We ignore a 500 pound elephant within the room that could be a third occasion in our “negotiations.” That’s, the legal guidelines of science. And that elephant by no means negotiates.
Till each side can agree that we should embody science realities as one of many events to our planning, we’ll proceed pretending that our meaningless negotiated compromises in local weather coverage have relevance.
Lee Alley, Wenatchee
