Readers Write 4/18
Legislators not likely to buck Georgia Power
Regarding “Cobb EMC signs on for solar power” (News, April 16), Steve Ivey, president of Simon Solar, is surprised Georgia hasn’t advanced further in utilizing solar power?
I’m not.
As long as Georgia Power is protected by a coterie of wined, dined and bought legislators, change is guaranteed to be slow.
Why promote solar when you are allowed to charge customers for building nuclear facilities before they provide any power?
Congratulations to Cobb EMC. I certainly hope this project comes to fruition.
Diane Shearer, Tucker
Krugman’s slam at Ryan a waste of space
Never have so many words said so little as Paul Krugman’s column criticizing Paul Ryan (“Centrists lift budget chief to undeserved icon status,” Opinion, April 14).
What an absolute waste of good space in the AJC. If that is the best he can do, the AJC should simply leave white space where his column would be printed.
Jeff Fisher, Sandy Springs
A ‘Titanic’ lesson about man and nature
One hundred years ago this week, a marvel of man’s technical ingenuity was destroyed by one of nature’s most formidable forces.
The Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic and went down.
This disaster should be a cautionary tale for us all. We cannot really defeat nature. We must work with it (and not test it).
Had the captain of the Titanic slowed the ship in an area where icebergs were present, this disaster would not have happened. Man’s arrogance doomed this ship.
A good example of man’s arrogance is displayed in the case of California and the San Andreas fault.
We know it will slip again but we continue to build on or near the fault. Someday it will slip. The ensuing catastrophe will be like one we have never known.
Work with nature, and reap the benefits.
Work against it, and suffer the consequences.
Bill Burns, Stone Mountain
‘Conservative’ court assaults Constitution
The letter “Leftists have no clue about Constitution” (Readers write, Opinion, April 13) is jarring, given the recent 5-4 Supreme Court decision basically overturning the amendment guaranteeing against search and seizure without due cause.
In that decision, the conservative majority decided that any American citizen who is arrested, no matter how minor the charge, can be strip-searched by law enforcement officials.
Conservatives who howl about government overreach and following the Constitution need to rein in their own anti-constitutional judges on the highest court in the land.
Lynn Ehrlicher, Decatur
