Flooded road is preview of future
It is not often we are able to see the future. However, the stunning photograph of the inundated road between Savannah and Tybee Island (“High tide closes road to Tybee for several hours,” News, Oct. 28) shows a scene to be repeated increasingly as the sea level rises due to climate change. Seawater frequently floods up into the gutters of Alton Road, the first main thoroughfare on the western side of Miami Beach, and pours into the street, closing businesses and flooding houses. The sea level along the U.S. East Coast is rising faster than the world average. None of the East Coast will be spared.
As a retired geography professor who specializes in climatology, I am thankful Republican Congressman Chris Gibson, supported by 24 other Republicans, recently put before Congress a resolution on climate change. A carbon fee and dividend program would be the best way to start reversing the long-term trend that will cause havoc for our grandchildren.
DAVID GREENLAND, SANDY SPRINGS
Critics shouldn’t erase our history
It’s getting old hearing from all these politically correct talking heads wanting to erase the history of the Confederacy just because of one incident in South Carolina. What if a black person wearing an MLK shirt killed a bunch of white people? Are you going to remove all references to MLK — all the statues, memorials, street names and so on? I don’t think so. So why don’t the NAACP, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, state Sen Vincent Fort, D-Atlanta, and U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., fix their problems and leave history alone?
GARY QUEEN, MARIETTA
Both student, officer out of line
Two wrongs don’t make a right (“SC deputy fired for violent arrest,” News, Oct. 29). The female student in South Carolina should have listened to her teacher and the vice principal who asked her to leave the classroom. She could have seen who had texted her and answered at the end of the class period rather than disrupt the class.
When a person in authority asks or tells you to do something, unless it is detrimental to your health, you do it. By the same token, when it is necessary to call a policeman to handle a situation in a classroom, there is definitely a problem. The policeman treated her as if she had committed some terrible act that harmed another person. This was not the case. Perhaps the girl did need physical force to be removed from class, but the force was excessive.
DAVID CLARKE, BUFORD
