Letter: Utah’s leaders fiddle around while our planet burns

Nero fiddled while Rome burned, or so goes the legend.Our elected officials remind me of Nero. They may not fiddle, but they are oblivious to global catastrophes. And they literally want to put “oil on the fire.” On July 30, The Tribune announced renewed oil and gas leasing in Utah; coal is also being revived. Why don’t our elected officials care that burning fossil fuels will increase our climate dangers?Fossil fuels have sequestered carbon for millions of years. In the 1800s,