Climate-study denial hurts ag
March 27, 2022
How do we determine the most fundamental reason the Fresno County Board of Supervisors voted against spending an approved grant to assess the impact of climate deterioration on rural communities?
A variety of board members' negative comments amounted to ad hominem attacks on the survey and revealed a lack of understanding of the nature and importance of empirically derived facts.
Just like many people who put off seeing their physician because they don't want to know they might be seriously ill, Steve Brandau (my district's supervisor) and the others do not want to know the answers to critical questions in this situation because it likely will mean making changes to safeguard the health of the most vulnerable and the least represented.
That stance is not only opposing the well-being of all, it actually works against agriculture by not knowing precisely what needs to be done to help keep its work force healthy and on the job. -
David E. Roy, Fresno
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