Readers sound off on New York’s climate policies, Trump’s supporters and loving thy neighbor

Albany indispensable reboot New York’s greenish initiatives

Brooklyn: I was appalled erstwhile Gov. Hochul indicated successful her State of the State code that she is backtracking connected releasing the regulations for the cap-and-invest programme that was approved successful 2023 and is the cardinal programme for reaching our state’s legally mandated clime targets — which, according to the state’s ain analysis, we are failing to reach.

In the midst of raging wildfires that are presently destroying Los Angeles, it’s intolerable to judge she is unaware that clime alteration is happening now, and that urgent enactment is required close now. Our authorities has had its stock of utmost upwind lately — grounds heat, an aggravated drought, punishing storms and flooding, wildfire smoke, etc. All of these conditions are exacerbated by clime change, which is caused by humans burning fossil fuels.

Hochul acts arsenic if clime is simply a abstracted contented than affordability, but what astir our rising powerfulness bills and the expanding outgo of security connected our homes? What astir the outgo of repairing the infrastructure that is damaged by aggravated storms (did we larn thing from Superstorm Sandy)? Delaying cap-and-invest implementation, failing to see the NY HEAT Act successful the budget, and failing to physique capable renewable vigor arsenic mandated by authorities instrumentality is simply a slap successful the look to the children and families who unrecorded successful New York and to the regularisation of law.

In bid to hole this pathetic shortsightedness by the governor, the Assembly indispensable measurement successful to suggest a fund that is beardown connected climate, wellness and affordability. We indispensable money a modulation to a cleanable vigor system immediately. Carolyn O’Keefe

Another billion

Brooklyn: Gov. Hochul stated that she invested $1 cardinal to woody with intelligence health. I wonderment wherefore nary 1 has ever investigated wherever the astir $1 cardinal went that Chirlane McCray was fixed to woody with it for ThriveNYC. L. Veneroni

Myriad risks

Manhattan: I took the bid Friday with my woman and determination was a antheral masturbating successful the car. People shoved successful beforehand of trains, radical acceptable connected fire. We shouldn’t person to wage for our information by driving our car alternatively of taking a train. Joseph Duffy

Foot patrols

Manhattan: In summation to overnight NYPD subway patrols, wherefore not ground-level, rotating four-hour shifts, dawn to dusk? Haven’t seen a bull locomotion a bushed anyplace successful New York for the past 15 years isolated from Times Square. Appearance makes the difference. Paul Gerrard

Put the $ to work

Bronx: Has the MTA mislaid its mind? They’re losing $800 cardinal a twelvemonth to fare-evaders, truthful they program to walk $1 cardinal connected a survey to fig retired wherefore radical don’t pay. Now they’re besides installing barriers to forestall fare evasion, adding adjacent much costs. Here’s a caller idea: Use that wealth to wage constabulary overtime to contented tickets to fare-evaders. The gross from fines could beryllium allocated to prosecute much transit police. This would marque the subways safer, attracting much riders and expanding revenue. You’re invited — nary complaint for the advice! Al D’Angelo

No vacancies?

Scarsdale, N.Y.: Mayor Adams visited Mar-a-Lago? Did Turkey tally retired of escaped rooms? John Kern

Wellspring of lies

Howard Beach: Eight years ago, the lies started — the “largest assemblage to ever be an inauguration.” Four years aboriginal they ended with “we won the election.” In between, determination were immoderate 30,000 further “alternative facts.” Before helium was reelected, helium claimed helium would beryllium a dictator “for the archetypal day.” Can we judge thing this antheral says? Ed Sullivan

Trojan equine for the 1%

Manhattan: I americium amazed that the blue-collar MAGA protagonist believes Donald Trump volition assistance him. When Joe Biden was president, Trump opposed raising the indebtedness ceiling. Now helium wants to rise it, chopped important benefits for blue-collar radical (i.e. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid) and usage each of that wealth helium takes from america to springiness to the 1%. It reminds maine of thing that erstwhile President Lyndon Johnson erstwhile said: “If you guarantee the lowest achromatic antheral that helium is amended disconnected than immoderate Black man, that antheral volition fto you prime his pocket.” Marc H. Lavietes

Simple folk

Neptune, N.J.: Whenever I perceive to 1 of the MAGA assemblage being interviewed, I can’t assistance but beryllium reminded of a enactment from the Mel Brooks classical “Blazing Saddles.” The gunslinger Gene Wilder is describing the townspeople to the caller sheriff, Cleavon Little. “You’ve got to retrieve that these are conscionable elemental farmers. These are radical of the land. The communal clay of the caller West. You know… morons.” Vince Nardiello

Easy ID

Staten Island: I privation that each Trump supporters would crook orangish similar their beloved cult person for the adjacent 4 years. At slightest erstwhile it hits the instrumentality and they yet aftermath up, determination volition beryllium nary denying who supported him, making them casual to identify. Ellen Settanni

Apples and oranges

Bronx: To Voicer Robert Stiloski: Are you truly that dense to marque a examination betwixt Trump, who was convicted connected 34 felony counts and elected to the highest bureau successful the land, and Hunter Biden, who ne'er worked successful the White House, is simply a backstage national and has nary information clearance? Please archer maine you’re kidding. Frank Teti

Small-time SecDef

Edison, N.J.: When Pete Hegseth is enactment successful complaint of the Department of Defense, that would beryllium the equivalent of the Yankees putting the bat lad successful close tract batting clean-up. Please enactment that I said when, not if. Thomas Morrison

Makings of madness

Pasadena, Calif.: An Elon Musk biographer has sounded the alarm that the world’s richest antheral whitethorn beryllium losing his mind, and Trump conscionable gave him a country astatine the White House. The Harvard Law-educated biographer Seth Abramson speculated that Musk mightiness beryllium “going mad” successful a mounting for each to see, brought connected by his increasing stress, past of intelligence unwellness and self-described dense cause use. Musk appeared to mock the trans and non-binary assemblage with 1 post, which appeared to amusement an emoji of a large antheral with the caption: “X spreads misinformation,” alongside his caption: “This 1 ever gets me.” He shared different station to his timeline accusing the British authorities of covering up kid abuse. He besides claimed Trump’s winning the U.S. predetermination has saved the satellite and said quality outlets tin nary longer beryllium trusted. Richard A. French

Seems obvious

Margate, Fla.: Voicer Jagjit Singh ignores the information that connected Oct. 7, 2023, 3,800 Hamas sociopaths and 2,200 Gazan civilians violated an existing ceasefire by murdering 1,200 guiltless Israelites. Why would anyone with an IQ supra 5 not expect Hamas to interruption this ceasefire? Richard Sherman

False consciousness of security

Hoboken: Voicer Wanda Lucci believes rosary beads person stopped wars and coercion passim the years. Yeah, I’m definite the American Indians, African slaves and German Jews each hold with that, arsenic bash today’s Ukrainians, Palestinians and Israelis. And let’s not hide erstwhile the rosary beads miraculously stopped the airplanes from hitting the towers. Joe Ewansky

Civility standard

Brooklyn: The existent vitriol, hatred, back-and-forth name-calling and hurling of insults against others who judge otherwise is summed up successful Galatians 5:14-15, a stern informing for this generation: “For each the instrumentality is fulfilled successful 1 word, adjacent successful this; Thou shalt emotion thy neighbour arsenic thyself. But if ye wound and devour 1 another, instrumentality heed that ye beryllium not consumed 1 of another.” It needs to cease. May the Daily News instrumentality a positive, progressive relation concerning this. It’s OK to people letters from Voicers disagreeing with others — gently, considerately, intelligently. It is not OK to people letters accusing others of being idiots, of slander, of phobia, bias and of being conscionable abbreviated of the beast with 7 heads. Please marque it your work to pass the nationalist that you volition nary longer judge letters bashing “thy neighbor.” Let’s cleanable up the messiness and beforehand peace. Joy E. Goldberg

Sweet victory

Manhattan: Don’t you conscionable emotion it erstwhile UConn men’s basketball’s crap-spewing manager Dan Hurley loses? Creighton University’s men of quality bushed him again! Susan Kain