Your Dec. 3 article on the UN climate conference in Poland reads like the preview to a disaster movie. Well, the movie is real, and the disaster is of our own making. Our refusal to act with urgency on the increasingly incontrovertible evidence of the effect of fossil fuel emissions on the planet has put us at the edge of a precipice.

Keeping with the disaster movie scenario, the article included a quote from a movie hero, of sorts. It was slightly reassuring to read former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s dismissal of Trump’s attitude about climate change as “meshugge” -- “crazy.” If Schwarzenegger can convince more of his fellow Republicans to join him in a rational, evidence-based response to climate change, we might just have a chance. If the Republican party as a whole does not get that message, we voters need to reject their candidates as though the future of civilization depended on it -- because it does.

To vote for leaders who think that climate change is not a real threat, or who are not willing to take action to reduce that threat, would truly be crazy.

Mary Memmott

Framingham