Remember our Mother Earth

To the editor:

California is in the midst of a historic drought. Wyoming and Colorado are getting dumped on with snow. Texas and Oklahoma are digging out from devastating tornadoes and the east coast is being hammered by one of the earliest tropical storms ever.

The extreme is becoming the normal just as the overwhelming majority of scientists have been predicting for decades. Glaciers are melting faster than ever, sea levels are threatening low-lying islands and coastal cities, the warming oceans threaten all sea life while powerful storms wreak havoc around the world.

Yet the anti-science right wing party can't accept this evidence anymore than they could accept evolution. Their solution is end the Environmental Protection Agency and to burn more fossil fuels while continuing huge tax breaks and credits to the Koch brothers and their billionaire friends in the oil and coal business.

They've wasted decades fighting clean air and water regulations, higher mileage fuel standards, incentives for wind and solar energy while promoting drilling on public lands and fracking while investing in fruitless wars in the Middle East to protect oil company investments. They have played a dangerous game with our children's future to make a few individuals and corporations rich.

How ironic that those who believe God created the world and life 10,000 years ago have joined forces with the party whose policies would destroy the earth while the party that believes in science and evolution would do whatever it takes to save Mother Earth.

Larry Hodgden

Tipton