To the editor, or whoever stumbles upon this: So, yeah, it’s hot now, but guess what? It’s gonna get even hotter. Like, planet-on-fire hotter. Not just me saying this—there was this piece titled “‘It’s pretty bleak’: A warming planet is poised to get even hotter, forecasters warn” from May 29. Natural disasters—thanks a bunch, fossil fuels!—are about to make a mess of our health, our lives, and anything else we care about.
And what’s our House of Reps up to nowadays? They’ve got this “One Big Beautiful Bill.” Seriously, that’s what they call it. But here’s the kicker—it’s set to basically gut all the good climate stuff from the Inflation Reduction Act. That’s the kind of logic we’re dealing with.
Let’s talk numbers, kinda. The IRA, without even forcing anyone’s hand, has already driven $600 billion in private investments. It’s like, “Hey, here’s 750 new clean energy projects!” Boom, just like that, over 400,000 new jobs. Clean ones! There’s this study in the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology—no idea why I even read that—that says the health benefits from the IRA will actually cover its costs by 2050. Nuts, right?
And, by the way, the climate bits in the IRA are saving us from a future full of nasty surprises: droughts, storms, wildfires, sea level mess, ruined crops, skyrocketing insurance rates. It’s like this insurance policy we can’t ignore. If the folks in the Senate have any brains or maybe just a smidge of integrity, they’ll axe the bits of that bill that wanna wreck the climate legacy.
Anyway, that’s about it. Over and out from Tom Hazelleaf in Seal Beach.
