Dear Editor,
The Amazon rain forest is on fire. It has been reported that as much as 20 per cent of that rain forest is burning.

Several respectable scientists reported that glaciers around the world are melting at an accelerated and alarming rate. With the new focus on Greenland in the news, we are seeing pictures of rivers of melted glacier waters flowing toward the ocean.

Over 96 per cent of climate scientists tell us that the environmental crisis is real, and is caused by human activity, but climate change deniers continue to ignore the evidence that is all around us. The thing that really confounds me is how executives of the fossil fuel industry can continue to discard the scientific evidence knowing that they are devastating our planet. Don’t these people have children and grandchildren? When the bill for the insatiable greed comes due, they won’t be able to build the walls around their gated communities high enough to escape the unfolding disaster. You cannot eat money!
The incumbent US administration officials has announced a serious $16 trillion plan to combat climate change. I’m sure the right-wing media is having a field day with this. But what cost can you put on having fresh air to breathe and clean water to drink? What cost can you put on having food to eat?

Scientists tell us we only have a few years to turn this around, and I personally think their appraisal is optimistic. I’d had hope of living out my life on this earth before things started really getting ugly, but now I’m not so confident about my timeline.
When he announced withdrawal of US troops from Syria last year, the incumbent President of the UNITED STATES expressed regret over war spending, its futility, high cost, and loss of economic opportunity for the nation. The United States administration spent $7 trillion in the Middle East over 17 years, and got nothing out of it. That sum could be used to fight the climate change phenomena currently plaguing most of mankind. Although fact-checkers exposed the $7 trillion figure as much exaggerated, indicating $1.8 trillion or $3.6 trillion as more correct.

Withholding these staggering funds from vital domestic needs and saddling future generations with massively swollen national debt deserves presidential disapproval and lament. The President took pains to note the lack of results from this military spending. “We have nothing — nothing except death and destruction a horrible thing,” he reportedly stated recently.

The United States continues the plans for new warheads and modernisation of nuclear weapons arsenal, inherited from the Obama Administration., The Union of Concerned Scientists had then strongly criticized this plan. We now also learn that the current US administration planned to spend an estimated sum of $1.2 trillion on new weapons of war. The current climate is a threat to all mankind and leaders of all nations must give it their best undivided attention. We in South America should be concerned about the burning of the Amazon forest and share our deep concern with all our incumbent national administration.

Regards
Rooplall Dudhnath