Copley exhibit
As a coverage researcher and resident of Jamaica Plain, I discover the scene in Copley Sq. this weekend morally indefensible. Whereas town enters a chilly emergency with life-threatening wind chills, our most iconic public sq. is being occupied not by an emergency warming station, however by the “Frostival Lodge” — a heated, corporate-sponsored exhibit.
When public land is used to showcase “shoppable” furnishings and high-priced lattes whereas the unhoused battle to search out shelter, town has prioritized industrial advertising and marketing over human survival. We don’t want luxurious pop-ups; we want a authorities that ensures each citizen has a dignified, heat area to remain alive — no entry charges or QR codes required.
Ping Xu
Jamaica Plain
Photo voltaic tasks
Some essential questions had been raised by the Herald’s report on the cancellation of photo voltaic tasks in Puerto Rico (“Trump administration scraps multimillion-dollar photo voltaic tasks in Puerto Rico as grid crumbles,” Jan. 22.) The fragility of Puerto Rico’s grid could be very clear to me. At a household marriage ceremony within the capital metropolis of San Juan final February, we skilled a brief and unexplained energy outage.
Furthermore, since San Juan will get about 300 extra hours of daylight yearly than Boston, and since photo voltaic is now the least costly type of electrical energy, you’d assume investing in photo voltaic for Puerto Rico could be essentially the most cost-effective method.
The president’s cancellation of latest photo voltaic tasks for Puerto Rico is short-sighted fiscal coverage, one other signal of his bias in favor of fossil gasoline firms.
Invoice Beckett
Watertown
Puerto Rico
Ending photo voltaic tasks in Puerto Rico is a profoundly wrong-headed determination that displays an incoherent method to vitality. When local weather change is intensifying (and ceaselessly clobbering the island territory with superstorms and excessive precipitation), the very last thing Puerto Ricans want is for his or her deteriorating grid to be fed by the identical fossil fuels that are inflicting the disaster within the first place.
Trump’s ignorance and lying are each on show within the Division of Power’s e-mail, quoted in your article by the Related Press. Rooftop and balcony photo voltaic programs are important elements of a genuinely sustainable vitality system, whereas closely centralized grids are inherently extra susceptible to assault or malfunction.
This incoherent mixture of spite and greed shouldn’t be an vitality “coverage,” however a present of ignorance and contempt. Name it what it’s: the president’s thirst for revenge, directed at a inhabitants of US residents whose lives he has regarded with dismissive scorn for many years.
Warren Senders
Medford
