Anti-globalists ignore real issue of climate disruption
Patrick Buchanan accurately describes some of the challenges facing the COP26 global climate meeting in his column “Nationalism, globalism will face off at climate confab,” (Opinion, Oct. 24).
He writes, “nationalists ... are likely to prevail over the globalists who profess to be serving all of mankind.” Buchanan practically chortles with glee at the difficulties the COP26 delegates will face as they struggle to agree on nations’ fair contributions to solving the climate crisis.
So fixated is Buchanan on his anti-globalist crusade that he neglects the actual existential threat that climate disruption poses to us all. Restructuring our fossil fuel-driven global economy will require an unprecedented level of international cooperation in the short time we have available.
Rather than hoping for failure, conservatives should embrace the market, which is also a form of global cooperation. Establishing a world price on carbon will unleash the creative energy of thousands of entrepreneurs, who will earn their profits by saving human civilization from climate destruction.
DAN EVERETT, ATHENS
Invest in other countries so people won’t need asylum here
A letter writer stated he feels there is a massive invasion of our southern border. While many are seeking asylum in this country, the borders are not being invaded. The war-ravaged, impoverished and persecuted will stop seeking refuge in our country when Republicans in Congress allow, fund, and support the development of education systems and democratic governance in asylum seekers’ home countries so that they no longer have to risk their lives to come to our borders to simply survive. A society can endlessly spend money building walls and staffing detention centers. Or, it can invest in helping to build countries people won’t need to leave, making walls and detention centers unnecessary. I sincerely hope the Republican party’s children and grandchildren can forgive them for systematically furthering racism, fostering radicalization, gutting voter rights and bequeathing them a failing ecosystem, all under the guise of patriotism.
TERREL TOMS, ATLANTA
