Letter to the LNP Editor; text as submitted November 17, 2025
Human survival on our planet requires air, water, food, and shelter. To flourish beyond these basics, we also need effective health care, adequate education, meaningful occupation, and time enough for rest and sleep. A functioning government should assure that all these needs are met for their entire population.
To the contrary, in July Republican lawmakers enacted legislation which granted perpetual tax breaks to the wealthiest while omitting extension beyond the end of 2025 of health insurance subsidies for the non-wealthy. More recently those same Republicans withheld cash support for food purchases as a political cudgel to compel Democrats to abandon their attempts to restore health insurance assistance for 2026.
Equally disturbing, though gaining far less public attention, are policies that degrade the safety and quality of our air and water. Soon after taking office Trump began making significant cuts in staff and funding for the EPA. This includes closing the office which monitored pollution and contamination in our environment and eliminating funding grants for scientific research.
Even as global conditions make the growing threat of climate change unmistakable, the Trump administration remains in denial. They promote coal mining and oil and gas drilling while opposing clean energy efforts. Calling the science of climate change “a hoax,” Trump has withdrawn the U.S. from the 2015 Paris Agreement and failed to send a high-level delegation to the United Nations annual climate summit, happening now in Brazil.
We need to be aware of the damage to earth and to future generations that the current regime is doing, and dedicate our energy to correcting it.
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