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To the editor: My friends think I sound like a broken record (they’re old enough to know what that means) because I so often complain that our government is doing little to slow climate change. (“Wildfires are becoming a dangerous, disruptive routine near Yosemite,” Sept. 15)

The Times is filled with the other kinds of broken records: record heat, record drought, record storms — and now, record price tags for fighting wildfires.

Instead of waiting for another disastrous record to fall, our representatives should implement a rising price on carbon emissions that will encourage investment dollars away from carbon-based fuels and toward alternative sources of energy.

If we move fast enough, perhaps we can turn away from global disaster at record-breaking speed.

Peggy Painton, Los Angeles

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