I write to express my great appreciation for Patricia Hynes’ and Timmon Wallis’ urgent Aug. 4 column entitled, “Warheads to Windmills,” subtitled “Addressing Two Greatest Threats to Humanity and the Natural World.”

If you’re reading this now but missed their important essay, please go back and read it now.

When will we human “lemmings” who are rapidly marching — marching backwards, blindly, with our eyes closed — toward the cliff of unimaginable human and environmental destruction, finally turn around and reverse our direction?

Hynes and Wallis show us there’s a way to do that.

A good first step for most of us is simply to speak up publicly — among our family members, neighbors, friends, and legislative representatives — about the absolute necessity of taking whatever steps we and they can take, however small, to help turn this life-threatening situation around.

The continued advance of this world-threatening nuclear and environmental situation depends on our silence, our lack of protest.

Though it may not be our intention, our silence amounts to complicity.

Randy Kehler

Shelburne Falls

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