Chip Fletcher, University of Hawaii earth sciences professor, said that the latest reading from Mauna Loa represents “yet another signal that humanity has failed future generations, continues to devastate global ecology, and relentlessly places profit before planet and people” (“Data taken atop Mauna Loa forewarn of climate change,” Star-Advertiser, May 19).

Look no further than Kailua Shopping Center, where six businesses with central air conditioning prop eight entry doors full-open all day long.

Air conditioning the great outdoors has never worked, but it does just as Fletcher warned us.

Bob Ress

Kailua

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