This is a pivotal world moment for our children and their children. Climate change has become obvious. The signs: drought, record low snowpacks that kill off salmon and trout streams, record flooding, frequent superstorms, massive wildfires, “uninhabitable high temperatures” projected in desert areas, melting glaciers and polar ice, rising seawater levels, flooding of low-lying areas all around the world, blankets of summer smoke and more.

These are only going to get more economically and even militarily destructive if we as a nation and, more importantly, as Earth inhabitants, don’t act, and the technology is there to do so: not by the next election, or by 2020 or 2030. Now, while there is best hope efforts can be successful.

President Obama seems to be relying on voluntary actions by the fossil fuel empire to clean up our air and try to slow the speeding bullet. As corporations, they frankly have no economic incentive to do so. Tell the president to get deadly serious about this issue and act at the Paris summit.

Bob Gregson

Spokane