Letter: The powerful don’t suffer from their own bad decisions

Bryan Stevenson, director of the Equal Justice Initiative, claims that the first step to resolving a concern is to “get proximate.” Getting up close with unfamiliar people and issues and realities is an essential part of promoting solutions. This principle extends to climate change and environmental protection.Our current legislature, on both the state and federal levels, is old and affluent. They live far from the heaviest polluters and, due to age or wealth, they will not reap the