Skip to footer

Readers write: State action on climate, ethical standards for presidents

Letters to the editor for the July 3, 2017 weekly magazine.

|
Eric Risberg/AP
California Gov. Jerry Brown (seen here speaking during a joint Netherlands and California Environmental Protection Agency conference on May 24, 2017) is one of the governors who joined the U.S. Climate Alliance to uphold the Paris climate agreement, a pact involving nearly 200 nations aimed at slowing the warming of the planet.
  • By Jack Wilt Monitor reader
  • Jan Sproull Monitor reader
  • Whitney Wyndham Monitor reader

State action on climate

Regarding the June 2 Monitor Daily article “Paris pullout: Now, US cities and states respond”: Thank you for this reporting on states, cities, and companies assuming the leadership role that President Trump has abandoned on climate change. I hope this movement continues to grow and attracts support from a majority of US cities, states, and companies. 

Please follow this story closely and keep us up to date. Thank you!

Jack Wilt

Freeland, Md.

Regarding the article “Paris pullout: Now, US cities and states respond”: Great article! It’s the best I’ve read on the alliance of mayors and governors for green energy. 

The example in the article of the flooding in South Bend, Ind., and how the city retooled to adapt to the future put the entire issue of climate change into excellent perspective. It’s important and helpful that the Monitor cover connections like that one because too many other media organizations do not connect the dots.

You do, you did, and bravo!

Jan Sproull

LaFayette, Ga.

Ethical standards for presidents

I found the June 5 Monitor’s View “The public’s expectations of chief executives” in the Weekly to be quite refreshing – thank you. 

It rings true to the Monitor’s objective, “To injure no man, but to bless all mankind,” by reminding us that instead of grieving at the world’s corruption (which is given much media attention), we can rejoice in and uphold the higher ethical standards, and the uncovering of wrongdoing, that the world is now demanding of its corporate and political leaders. 

Let us all do our part to continue this trend of progress for the world, and we will experience more and more of its tangible results.

Whitney Wyndham

Chestnut Hill, Mass.

You've read  of  free articles. Subscribe to continue.
Real news can be honest, hopeful, credible, constructive.
What is the Monitor difference? Tackling the tough headlines – with humanity. Listening to sources – with respect. Seeing the story that others are missing by reporting what so often gets overlooked: the values that connect us. That’s Monitor reporting – news that changes how you see the world.
editor@csmonitor.com
Subscribe
Mark Sappenfield
Editor

Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com.

Subscribe to insightful journalism

QR Code to Readers write: State action on climate, ethical standards for presidents
Read this article in
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Readers-Respond/2017/0701/Readers-write-State-action-on-climate-ethical-standards-for-presidents
QR Code to Subscription page
Start your subscription today
https://www.csmonitor.com/subscribe