Re: “Deliver on promise and protect Seattle trees” [Jan. 11, Opinion]:
I couldn’t agree extra with the editorial. It’s time for the Emerald Metropolis within the Evergreen State to stay as much as its inexperienced status.
We simply skilled the most popular 12 months in historical past. The World Well being Group cites local weather change as the one largest well being menace going through humanity, together with from warmth stress. The timber we’re blessed to have and those that we have to plant are key to a livable future. Seattle has the fourth highest common city warmth island index per capita within the nation, in keeping with Local weather Central, and getting hotter with every new constructing challenge that paves former inexperienced house.
With easy steps like tree inventories and panorama plans on the entrance finish of initiatives, we will construct all of the housing we’d like and save present timber.
We have to stop the unfold of city warmth islands earlier than it’s too late. Many due to the editorial board for reminding us of the significance of defending our metropolis’s diminishing tree cover. In a 2021 ballot by Change Analysis, greater than 80% of Seattleites favor stronger tree protections. It’s previous time for our metropolis leaders to get on board.
Woody Wheeler, Seattle