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Harris/Kelly ticket
seems like winner
I am sad that Joe Biden stepped down in his presidential bid under intense pressure. He is perhaps our greatest president in the last 75 years and would have been reelected. It was a mistake by the Democratic Party. Look at this man’s accomplishments: over 15 million jobs in 3½ years, the lowest unemployment of the last 50 years, re-engaged us in the Paris climate treaty, signed the infrastructure bill, and much more.
Kamala Harris is the path forward. If the Democrats want to ensure a solid ticket that people can get behind, think Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly for vice president. This ticket would have great diversity and would not only energize the Democratic base but would get swing voters from Arizona. He is a decorated Navy captain, astronaut and popular senator.
Having Joe Biden step down was a questionable move at best; a Harris/Kelly ticket would bring solace and a win.
John Rowles
Cupertino
We should diversify
tech, security software
Re: “Tech outage causes disruptions worldwide” (Page A1, July 20).
The CrowdStrike outage underlines a key law in the IT world that has been broken regarding mission-critical redundancy: Be prepared and resilient. Any IT manager knows this.
Having most of the world running the current versions of Windows or any one brand of OS is pure folly. Maybe we need legislation mandating that each critical industry run a unique OS. Run the MacOS which runs on a flavor of UNIX. Run RED HAT Linux. Run whatever but don’t have 99% of the world all run Windows.
We only have to remember the 1950s agribusiness crisis when the entire Gros Michel banana crop was wiped out by the Panama disease fungus. Now we grow Cavendish bananas which are ready to be wiped out yet again by a new fungus. The lesson to be learned here is that there is strength in diversity.
Michael Alvarado
San Jose
Humans must decrease
wanton consumption
Earth Overshoot Day is estimated to be Aug. 1. This date moves earlier every year as the human population continues to grow and consume.
Overshoot Day marks when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services, in a given year, exceeds what can regenerate in that year. We maintain this deficit by liquidating stocks of ecological resources and accumulating waste.
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The supply side: Earth’s biocapacity, represented by productive land and sea areas, including forest lands, grazing lands, cropland and fishing grounds.
The demand side includes a population’s demand for food and fiber products, livestock and fish products, timber and other forest products, mining, space for urban infrastructure, and forests to absorb carbon dioxide from fossil fuels.
Impacts of ecological overspending are apparent already in soil erosion, desertification, reduced cropland productivity, overgrazing, deforestation, rapid species extinction, fisheries collapse and increased carbon concentration in the atmosphere. Humans need to decrease consumption and overpopulation.
Tina Peak
Palo Alto
