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Much of the world’s efforts to combat climate change focus on reducing carbon dioxide emissions, which result largely from the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas, and whose heat-trapping particles can linger in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. But methane’s effects on the climate — which have earned it the moniker “super pollutant” — have become better appreciated recently, with the advent of more advanced leak-detection technology, including satellites.

The W.N.B.A.’s ratings did soar, but the additional attention also magnified intense conversations on television shows, podcasts and social media. Pundits passionately clashed with colleagues, players described racism they had experienced, and the players’ union openly rebuked the league’s commissioner.

Re “Judge Says Trump Administration Memos Directing Mass Firings Were Illegal” (news article, nytimes.com,66br Feb. 27):

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Perhaps what emerges most clearly from the extraordinarily high numbers of federal workers who are being fired is that President Trump and Elon Musk simply have no sense of them as human beings with actual lives. These people are not people, they are just abstractions — numbers.

Given the billionaires who run the government now, this is not surprising, because none of them have ever had to address the kinds of issues that all of these fired people are going to have to address. Where does the mortgage come from? What happens to our health care? How do I pay for food?

Nor will they have to experience the inevitable consequences of the turmoil into which these sudden firings will throw families: domestic violence, divorce, poverty, suicide.

But Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk simply couldn’t care less, because they have never cared about anyone except themselves, and all of their needs have been met.

Edward S. HarwoodNew York

To the Editor:

Reflecting on my career of 40-plus years in the corporate sector before my retirement 15 years ago, I am horrified when I compare my experience to that of the plight of government workers in just the last month.

My former colleagues and I often complained about deadlines, long hours and ever-changing requirements. I thought that nothing could be more jarring than the anxiety of waking up to headlines announcing that your company was being acquired by another entity — one you were wholly unfamiliar with from another part of the world. You knew that you would be forced to audition for your job — again — and that there would be job cuts and scary management changes.

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