Climate-change advocates ignore facts, history
Regarding Steve Breen's "Stronger hurricanes and climate change" cartoon (Opinion, Sept. 13) – this is worse than Mike Luckovich's inaccurate, no-facts cartoon barrages. Some of the worst U.S. hurricanes in history were the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 that killed 8,000 people, the Sea Islands Hurricane of 1893 that hit South Carolina and Georgia and killed an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 people, the Florida Cat 5 Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 that killed 408, and the Long Island, Massachusetts and Rhode Island Hurricane of 1938 that had wind gusts up to 180 mph. There were many others before global warming and climate change became an issue. The highest recorded average U.S. temperatures were from 1911 to 1936. The U.S. population was 123 million in 1930 and 308 million in 2010. Wouldn't that 308 million need much more energy, housing and factories, causing loss of forests? Shouldn't that make record-high temperatures much higher now? – PAUL PROSKOWERZ, SNELLVILLE
Helping homeless should be city’s priority, not tax breaks
It’s easy to see where Atlanta’s priorities are: A tax break for the Hawks Arena and more than a billion dollars for the development of the Gulch. Atlanta is still in the running for Amazon’s HQ2, and that comes with more giveaways. Each time the city develops an area, they move our forgotten citizens around. Instead of housing these folks, we keep running them off. Having homeless people roaming our city is expensive, dangerous, wasteful and cruel. Many need medical help, addiction treatment, counseling and medication. All of them need housing and job training. In the long run, solving a problem is more cost-effective than just ignoring it. The city owns the Atlanta Civic Center, which could be repurposed as a community shelter providing mental and physical health care, a barber shop, a cafeteria, housing and job training. This could be a win-win for the city.
DAVE FEDACK, DOUGLASVILLE
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