In response to Phil Carter’s letter (Herald, May 13), all I can say is I admire J. Paul Brown even more now.

Phil seems to take the road that climate change causes are all settled and there is no more debate. So, let’s put companies or even whole industries that cause carbon dioxide emissions out of business. Whether we have a viable alternative or not doesn’t matter; full speed ahead. I’d rather have somebody in government to keep questioning what most people are blindly following by reading the headlines in the news. Yet those headlines have fallen by the wayside recently. Why?

Could it be that none of the predictions have even come close to being correct? Doesn’t that warrant a little skepticism before putting so many people out of business? It will be pretty hard to apologize to people who have already had their lives ruined by the rush to save the planet from a cause that obviously hasn’t been researched or established yet. But I guess the thinking that it’s better to err on the safe side can’t be bad, as what can possibly happen?

J. Paul Brown knew what was going to happen, and it took a lot of courage for him to do that. He doesn’t wear the blinders of the typical politician today.

Pick what you want, somebody with a closed mind or an open one. It wasn’t very long ago that a question like that was never thought of or even asked.

John Everest

Farmington