Interstate shuts down with every POTUS
I read with interest the letter “Was I-75 shutdown necessary?” on Jan. 18. As a parent of children who attended a private school in College Park, I was constantly driving back and forth from the Northside of town to the Southside of Atlanta.
I can’t remember how many times I was caught up in the shut down of I-75/85 shutdown when President Obama came to town, but I can assure you that it was more than twice. The letter-writer must not have lived in Georgia at the time or had to have stayed put in Peachtree City to not have known that this happens with every POTUS. As far as her feeling this was a political stunt, I felt honored that President Trump came to one of the most important games our city has been fortunate to have in my lifetime.
TRACY CAIN, ATLANTA
Humans have power to fight global warming
A recent letter-writer says he believes that while climate change is real and causing extreme weather, it isn’t caused by humans since extreme weather existed on the planet before mankind (“Global warming not caused by humans,” Readers Write, Jan. 14).
So what’s the point? Is it that we should all ignore what’s going on because we didn’t make it happen? Or is it that we are too puny to do anything about climate at a global scale?
Personally, I have no trouble believing in mankind’s power. In a century or two, we’ve released the global solar energy that nature took billions of years to seal up in oil and coal. For good or ill, that’s some accomplishment, and I see no reason to think that Earth scoffs at it.
But whether that or something else is causing the climate to change, I have to believe we have to power to do something about it. I’m not sure I believe we’ll get over denial and infighting in time.
ROBERT WOLFSON, MARIETTA
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