Gov. John Hickenlooper released his climate change plan earlier this month. (Associated Press file)
Re: “State climate plan keeps right focus,” Oct. 13 editorial.
The Denver Postap editorial board commends the 2015 Colorado Climate Plan for being rooted “in the real world.” The plan evidently garners that praise because it doesn’t propose anything threatening to the interests of the state’s powerful oil and gas industry or their friends in the General Assembly.
Earth’s atmosphere is much more essential to the “real world” than oil and gas companies or their friends. As more carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are dumped into the atmosphere, it responds by warming up the planet. That warming increasingly threatens humanity’s ability to survive here.
We need to immediately begin reducing our production of greenhouse gases. Unfortunately, the 2015 Colorado Climate Plan does not take us in that direction.
Our state government must do much better. The real world will not treat us kindly if we fail to do so.
Betty Ball, Boulder
This letter was published in the Oct. 19 edition.
