Actually, our electrification efforts are moving far too slowly. When Frank Slason wrote his letter to the Press Herald (“Electrification effort moving far too fast,” March 21, Page A4), he hadn’t yet had a chance to learn about the report that was the subject of Tuesday’s front-page story (“World is on brink of climate calamity, definitive U.N. climate report warns,” March 21).

Slason is correct in saying that “we will need a new grid that can handle the load,” but we need to urgently begin building that grid, not use the weakness of our present grid as a reason for delay. Unless, of course, we’re fine with cruising into a catastrophe that we humans might have avoided.

Allen Armstrong
Portland

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