To the Editor:hawkplay

The destruction from Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton is horrific. Many climatologists and meteorologists, such as John Morales (“When a Television Meteorologist Breaks Down on Air and Admits Fear,” nytimes.com, Oct. 8), have rightly identified global climate change as a driver of increasingly violent weather.

It’s also horrific that there has been little discussion about the role that Donald Trump has played as one of the most important climate deniers, hindering the world’s attempts to mitigate global warming.

Repeatedly calling climate change a hoax, he withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, rolled back regulations designed to limit greenhouse emissions, and dismissed the role of temperature and drought in the proliferation of forest fires. Mr. Trump repeatedly used the power of the presidency to favor the gas and oil industries at the expense of the environment.

Now we must contend with catastrophic hurricanes, with a high cost to human well-being and the economy. The last few weeks have shown us that no one is safe from the effects of climate change, and we need to elect officials to our national and state governments who recognize that we must stop kicking the can down the road and address climate change now.

Mardi KlevsEvanston, Ill.

To the Editor:

Re “Getting People to Pitch In” (Climate Forward special section, Sept. 25):

Thanks for highlighting that individual climate actions do, in fact, matter. Big corporations and billionaires have oversized environmental footprints, but the footprints of eight billion and counting “normal people” also add up to a huge impact.

According to Project Drawdown, the most impactful climate solutions in line with limiting global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius are reducing food waste, slashing meat consumption and slowing population growth by removing barriers to family planning and education.

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