Readers speak: Trump could ask Musk to help save our burning planet

Now that Donald Trump effectively controls all branches of government and is no longer answerable to voters or virtually any prosecution, he is, in essence, a king. He can choose to be a petty tyrant or one that is transformational. Here’s how one of his very first meetings should go: “Elon, I want you to help me save our burning planet.

I’ll give you $50 billion in seed money to launch a project to remove carbon from the atmosphere and put it in the ground. Let’s ‘drill, baby, drill,’ only this time let’s put the carbon back where it came from rather than extracting it.” With Kissinger’s help, only Nixon could go to China.



With Musk’s, maybe only Trump can pull this one off. Philip C. Stevens, Guilford.