Earlier this month, when Palm Beach County commissioners met as the Solid Waste Authority, the county significantly raised the cost of waste disposal and approved a $1.5-billion waste incinerator, even though the Sierra Club noted that it will increase air and water pollution.
We could use money to extend the life of our existing landfills, but much less than $1.5 billion. This is a much more efficient use of resources and it will cause far less pollution.
We could also require the recycling of all cardboard from retailers. Yard waste and food waste is being burned when it could easily be composted. Many residences and business fail to recycle cardboard and paper. Taxpayers deserve better. Ask commissioners to rescind this vote.
Drew Martin, Lake Worth Beach
The writer is conservation chair of Loxahatchee Group Sierra Club.
Don’t idolize Charlie Kirk
I appreciate, laud and agree 100% with your editorial on Charlie Kirk (“A Charlie Kirk road, everywhere. Had enough?” Oct. 21).
Thanks to Kirk, who proselytized the abhorrent views of 1850s white America, an entire generation of young people has been brainwashed into hatred and anger. This is awful for America, but it’s great for racists, bigots, misogynists, xenophobes and the extraordinarily wealthy.
Barney Agate, Tamarac
Is there still time?
In recent years, we’ve replaced civilized discourse with name-calling and violent action.
Political leaders have forgotten that they were elected to work for the common good, not for their personal advancement nor to incite violence. Journalists have forgotten that their job is to inform objectively. And we common citizens have forgotten to accept other peoples’ points of view.
Is it too late to save the USA?
Carlo Ermoli, Tamarac
The fate of ‘Granny Earth’
Planet Earth is like an elderly widow in a wheelchair.
She’s not confined to it, but she just doesn’t get around as well as she once did. Her condition seems related to the fumes she breathed all those years from the home heating oil in her little house.
Her family hired a guardian for her — the longtime family friend and lawyer, Mr. Biden. He immediately moved her into a first-class nursing home with a patio where she could get daily sunshine and brisk breezes. He hired top medical specialists who prescribed strong drugs, a better diet, and more exercise. Mrs. Earth made steady improvement.
Then her greedy grandchildren decided they wanted Granny’s assets now, so they fired Mr. Biden and hired a new guardian, Mr. Trump. A businessman and a bottom-line fellow, Mr. Trump fired the doctors. He sent large, armed masked men into the nursing home. They grabbed Mrs. Earth by the neck, carried her to an unmarked van and drove her back to that fumy old house and left her there alone to fend for herself.
Mr. Trump then sent criminals to drill into the old lady’s safe deposit boxes to take possession of her assets. For some reason, Trump seemed to know a great many bad people. Maybe they had worked for him back when a court accused Trump of operating a “criminal enterprise.”
When family members loudly objected to the harm being inflicted on Granny Earth, Trump was defiant. He insisted, “There’s nothing wrong with that old woman, She’s always been fine in that house. Look at the big picture. We’re talking about jobs here. Jobs!”
Rick Garr, Fort Lauderdale
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