Letter to the editor: Green values vs. destroyed lives

The unprovoked invasion of Ukraine is shown every day on TV. War is ugly as peaceful, hardworking people are being maimed and killed. Rather than concern for the Ukrainian people, we hear comments from elites like climate tsar John Kerry of his concern that Russia may lose its focus on the climate issue. He complained, “You’re going to lose people’s focus. … I think it could have a damaging impact.”

Kerry, whose family owns multiple homes and a private jet, recognizes the war in Ukraine and the refugee crisis as a “problem” but nothing compared to what may be coming when climate change causes huge numbers of refugees to leave their countries for lack of food and energy. Climate-change elites focus on major changes that must be done immediately to avoid presumed catastrophes decades from now (if ever). To them, destroyed Ukrainian lives seem a mere inconvenience.

Climate-change elites now seem to prioritize questionable political programs over innocent people’s lives? Joe Biden, Kerry and the climate elites should go back into their world and determine where their humanitarian values have gone. We must do all that we can to support the Ukrainian people and not listen to climate-change elites who continue to play “Chicken Little” with their political agenda.

Vincent J. Esposito

Murrysville