Re: “Bill Gates was right: Make climate spending about results” (Nov. 26, Opinion):
Todd Myers is right. Assembly the huge menace of local weather change requires the best instruments at our disposal. Nevertheless, the options he proposes solely handle particular person actions to scale back electrical energy. A world carbon tax is the one best answer.
The Trump administration confirmed that it understands this when it swooped in to dam the formal adoption of the Worldwide Maritime Group’s international carbon tax, thereby defending fossil gasoline earnings. However worldwide, the pattern is evident. Many developed nations, however not the U.S., have a carbon tax. Fossil fuels will likely be a ruinous chapter in our previous — both earlier than or after they destroy the civilization they helped construct.
Gwen Hanson, Bellevue
