Wildfire editorial comes up short

Your Nov. 1 editorial outlining the lessons of the 2015 fire season comes up short. It treats global warming as an irremediable fait accompli and thus does both this most critical of subjects and your readers a disservice. You reduce the conversation from one of addressing causes, and scientists agree the severity of this fire season was a result of global warming, to one of merely managing effects (important though that also is).

While we each must do our part to reverse global warming, large-scale change will only be achieved collectively, meaning through government. So the most obvious and important step for us to take is to elect a congressional representative who acknowledges the existence of, science underlying, and threat posed by climate change, and promises to lead toward meaningful solutions to this crisis aggressively and with innovation.

Our present congresswoman is the exact opposite of such representation and leadership. As a matter of greatest urgency, she must be replaced. You might have mentioned this in the editorial.

Michael Cain

Spokane