Leftist cartoon assaulted decency, decorum
While watching the funeral of George H.W. Bush, I remembered Mike Luckovich’s cartoon after President Bush’s death was announced. The cartoon (“For fun, we seated Trump next to Dana Carvey,” Opinion, Dec. 4) reduced the death of this courageous, honorable man to a joke – using a reference to Dana Carvey’s impersonation. I expect this kind of blatant disrespect from Luckovich. His cartoons are a continuing display of a liberal, leftist bias with disrespect of anything associated with conservatives or Republicans. But your editorial decision to publish this cartoon is astounding. You do a good job of offering different political opinions and viewpoints on many subjects. But if publishing this trash was in your mind an attempt at balance, it calls to mind the question raised in the McCarthy inquisitions: Have you no sense of decency?
KEITH BREWER, ACWORTH
Economy should fit with nature, not fight it
“Future Disasters: Floods, hurricanes and fires: Georgia faces dire climate warnings” (News, Dec. 3) properly reports the consequences of climate change: rising sea levels threatening coastal communities, more extreme hurricanes, wildfires, agricultural challenges from increased heat and more destructive storms. I deeply respect the work of climate scientists and believe in creating economies that fit into nature’s ways instead of fighting them. Fossil fuels are a burden because they increase greenhouse gases, and it costs too much to solely depend on them. Infrastructure changes are needed. Using the economy to diversify our power sources is a bipartisan insurance approach that makes sense. The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (HR 7173), supported by Republican and Democrat representatives, will effectively reduce fossil fuel dependence while it grows the economy. Urge your representative and senators to support it!
BOB JAMES, ATLANTA
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