On the energy front, a logical solution is to transition rapidly to wind and solar power networks, which by their nature are more distributed, more sensibly scaled and more resilient than fossil fuel systems. On the food front, a solution lies in the Farm System Reform Act, which directly tackles the dangerous consolidation of our food system by banning new corporate factory farm operations (and the expansion of existing ones) and investing much-needed resources to transition our country to more sustainable, reliable, smaller-scale food networks.
The best defense against crippling attacks on massive corporate infrastructure is to replace the systems that enable them.
Wenonah Hauter
Washington
The writer is executive director of Food & Water Watch and the author of “Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America.”
The U.S. Shouldn’t Repeat India’s ‘Fatal Error’ on Covid
To the Editor:
Re “Estimates Suggest Death Toll in India Is Far Higher Than Reported” (news article, May 26):
I am horrified and amazed that India’s shockingly high and probably vastly underestimated death toll from Covid-19 has not spurred authorities in the United States to proceed with greater caution in reopening our country. With only 40 percent of Americans fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, the C.D.C. issued new mask guidance on May 13, saying that fully vaccinated people need not wear masks in most indoor settings.
Didn’t the C.D.C. understand that the majority of unvaccinated people would not want to be identified as such and would also stop wearing masks indoors? Now, because of the C.D.C.’s misguidance, most states in the U.S. have fully reopened and are allowing people to mingle without masks in public indoor spaces.
This is precisely the sort of fatal error committed by India’s leaders when they prematurely declared they had beaten Covid-19 and lifted that country’s coronavirus restrictions. The scale of the suffering and loss of life taking place in India is almost unimaginable. I shudder to think that a similar wave of human tragedy is poised to strike the U.S.
Lisa Lipshires
Chicopee, Mass.
A Need for the Police
To the Editor:
Re “Crime Surging, Cities Reassess Policing Limits” (front page, May 24):
Calls to defund the police were a bad idea from the beginning. It’s no surprise that crime would flourish where there is a lack of policing and/or police resources. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that where there are no police officers, there will be more crime.
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