To the editor: What a shock, trade execs knew way back of the risks of microplastics (“Business executives knew for many years that microplastics have been infiltrating the human physique,” Oct. 26). It’s identical to how Exxon and Mobil knew many years in the past that our dependancy to fossil fuels would trigger local weather catastrophe, the results of which we’re simply starting to actually expertise.
Whereas the Los Angeles Occasions reviews on this, it additionally informs us that Gov. Gavin Newsom stepped again from his daring local weather agenda due to “affordability” (“Idealism vs. affordability: How excessive gasoline costs and Trump pressured Newsom to recalibrate his local weather agenda,” Oct. 23). At what level are the short-term income for companies and billionaires not definitely worth the destruction that they’re inflicting to our planet and all who stay right here, people included?
Possibly The Occasions may report additional on the superb advances being made in China and everywhere in the world to fight the destruction of our planet, fairly than presenting this as if it’s all inevitable.
Leslie Simon and Marc Bender, Woodland Hills
