Flash: Columbian editorial announces “Climate change is real,” and cites snippets of a recent federal report. It closes with the question, “What can we do about it?,” promising to “take a look at how the Northwest should prepare for a changing environment.”
And I reply, good grief! Too little, too late, Columbian. You helped torpedo a very workable Initiative 1631 by damning it with faint praise and flimsy objections. And now you suggest we need to “prepare”? What a lukewarm response to a red hot situation. We need to make slowing down our relentless march to ever-worsening climate our highest priority. If we don’t, our feeble preparations will be like spitting on raging wildfires.
Our community needs more fire in the belly from our invaluable home-owned newspaper around this defining issue of our age. Why aren’t we getting it? Please, wake us up! Inspire us! Urge us forward!
