Rich Lowry’s critique of the Biden administration’s efforts to promote electric vehicles (“Harris wants you out of your gas-powered car,” Oct. 9) is emblematic of those attempting to downplay the urgency of addressing climate change. While he offers valid points about consumer preferences and infrastructure challenges, his stance is myopic, disregarding the threat climate change poses.

We know that burning fossil fuels is the predominant driver of global warming. Even my grandson knows this. In a recent fourth grade exercise, in which students were invited to write down something they couldn’t control on a sticky note and affix it to the bulletin board, he wrote, “fossil fuels.” I felt both proud and sad when my son sent me a photo of that note. I wish my nine-year-old grandson weren’t worried about fossil fuels, but he has every reason to be. Transitioning to clean energy sources, including electric vehicles, is a crucial step in mitigating the already dire effects of climate change.

Resisting such measures under the guise of protecting “automotive choice” is a disservice to our collective future. Lowry’s dismissal of the EPA’s emissions targets as “government edict” overlooks the agency’s mandate to safeguard public health and the environment. Climate change is an externality that the free market has failed to adequately address, necessitating regulatory intervention.

For the sake of our children and grandchildren, we must vote for leaders who prioritize science-based policies and reject those who peddle climate denialism or complacency.

Lili Flanders

Truro

Joe Battenfeld describes Attorney General Campbell’s lawsuit against Tik Tok as a “political publicity grab, (“AG wasting taxpayer dollars on Tik Tok” Oct.10). He continues by writing that Campbell is trying to make her name known nationally. I agree with that premise and his assessment that her tenure has been disappointing at best.

I would speculate that she, like her AG predecessor Governor Healey, is using the job as a stepping stone and that prosecuting criminal cases is not necessarily the best path to higher office.

Paul Stewart

Quincy

Our military today is the oldest and smallest it has ever been just as we enter a great power conflict with a superpower our own elites have funded in China.  At a time when – due to federal government overspending – we now spend as much money just servicing our national debt (paying the daily interest on the government credit card) as we do on national defense, a direct result of left-wing fever-dreams like “global warming” and their open borders policies crashing our already strained welfare system, China is testing intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that can reach our shores from theirs while we struggle to fund modern weapons programs and to get disinterested, radicalized Americans off TikTok and into uniforms.

Seeing all these “Joy” signs crop up like mushrooms, I can tell you no one who has worn any U.S. service uniform in a war zone like I have feels any joy from this current crop of radicals in Washington D.C.

Nick McNulty

Windham, NH