Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\nOverall, however, everyone, regardless of where you live or who you are, is at risk from an unhealthy climate. The transition to cleaner energy \u2014 such as wind and solar \u2014 is an important investment to protect our health and our planet, especially for the sake of future generations who will inherit our world.<\/p>\n
Hopefully we can continue to make strides to create an environmentally just and healthy Dallas for all.<\/p>\n
Micah Nishigaki, Dallas<\/p>\n
Reduce plastic use<\/p>\n
Re: \u201cEasy ways to reduce microplastics,\u201d Aug. 31 Abode story. <\/p>\n
Growing up poor in Garland, my family always used plastic materials because they were cheap and easy to obtain. Unbeknownst to us, these products were slowly killing us.<\/p>\n
According to assistant professor Un-Jung Kim, plastics are everywhere in modern-day life, from food containers to the air inside our homes. Nanoplastics are small enough to enter the body\u2019s cells and tissues, and microplastics have been detected in human brains, blood, lungs, breast milk, hearts and more, causing significant harm to the human body. Often poor families like mine are most affected by plastic contamination and have no alternative choice but to rely on plastic materials. <\/p>\n
This is why I am asking Gov. Greg Abbott to take action: reduce the production and use of plastic in Texas and create a task force to address the human health harms associated with plastic use.<\/p>\n
Teeke Otieno Omondi, Forney<\/p>\n
Culture war of bullets<\/p>\n
The culture war of words is now fully a culture war of bullets after the assassinations of Melissa Hortman, a Democratic Minnesota state representative, and her husband, and the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a close ally of Donald Trump and conservative activist, a husband and father. <\/p>\n
We are at the beginning of the end. Our politicians have failed us. Hate is spreading from both parties. They no longer serve their constituents, only their power brokers. <\/p>\n
If we as a nation are to survive, this must stop and it must stop now.<\/p>\n
Paul Sokal, Dallas\/Forest Hills<\/p>\n
Destroying peace process <\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s recent public targeting of Qatar is not a diplomatic blunder. It is a strategic demolition of the peacemaking edifice itself. By attacking the one actor with the access and leverage to mediate, Israel reinforces an unequivocal statement: Any pathway to de-escalation will be preemptively destroyed. This is a preplanned and willful move to ensure the conflict remains permanently unsettled and debatable, forever manageable on Israel\u2019s terms alone through the ruthless application of force.<\/p>\n
War is Israel\u2019s established protocol, and business is exceptionally booming. It guarantees billions in military aid, unifies a fractured society against a common enemy and provides permanent cover for land theft. Peace would be a market collision. It would collapse the economy of fear and expose the open nature of the national project. So, of course, they bomb the peace process. You don\u2019t negotiate away your most profitable product line. <\/p>\n
Israel has mastered a terrible double-think: to forever play the victim while forever acting as the executioner. <\/p>\n
Israel further presents the world with a false choice: Side with our version of reality or be branded a terrorist sympathizer. There is no third way, no neutral humanitarian space. <\/p>\n
Its assault on Qatar exposes this false dichotomy. Even a nation acting as a pragmatic mediator is forced into the terrorist category for the crime of acknowledging that another perspective exists.<\/p>\n
Yumna Zahid Ali, Karachi, Pakistan<\/p>\n
Israel must finish job<\/p>\n
I applaud Israel for attacking Hamas leaders who perpetrated the Oct. 7 slaughter of civilian families. These leaders have been living in the lap of luxury in Qatar while their people suffer from the mess they created. <\/p>\n
Israel, fighting for her life on all sides and even in Jerusalem, must finish the job, as painful as it is. Gaza showed what a two-state solution would look like. Israel is for those who want to live in peace.<\/p>\n
Anton Skell, Plano<\/p>\n
Contracts have provisions <\/p>\n
Re: \u201cGrant is a valid contract,\u201d by Marc Richman, Wednesday Letters.<\/p>\n
In his letter to the editor, Richman makes an important point that grants of public money to institutions like Harvard University take place in the structure of contracts. <\/p>\n
My advice to Richmond is keep reading! Virtually all of these contracts have non-discrimination provisions so that a grantee will lose the money if they discriminate, harass or tolerate such individuals on the basis of race, creed or national origin. <\/p>\n
Sorry, Harvard, but you should not have my tax dollars to discriminate against Jews.<\/p>\n
Charles Anderson, Sunnyvale<\/p>\n
Name change will be costly <\/p>\n
President Donald Trump wants to change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War. This will cost the taxpayers many, many millions if not a billion dollars. <\/p>\n
This will not make the world more afraid of the U.S. No one will even notice. This money could be used to help FEMA or help to keep scientists looking for cures to keep the world healthy. Our elected politicians, please keep this change from happening.<\/p>\n
Don Rose, East Dallas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Create healthy city for all Re: \u201cCity adds to its environmental budget \u2014 Proposal would expand use of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":228020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,285,1596,14841,746,99,13191,7281,80,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-228019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-city-hall","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-israel-palestine-conflict","15":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115206818598095593","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}