Dear Editor:

I had high hopes acrimonious chatter would stop after election results were announced, but it continues. Rex Tillerson's review for a cabinet post has been difficult due to complaints of being a climate-change denier. Do we remain stuck in the complaint mode that damages our brains? The more we complain the more our brain is rewired. Complaining isn’t good for you. Repeated complaints rewires your brain making future complaints more likely.

If complaints continue, being positive is more difficult. Complaining damages other areas of your brain. Stanford University research shows complaining shrinks the hippocampus—an area of the brain critical to problem solving and intelligent thought. Remember, our brains naturally and unconsciously mimic moods of those around us, What’s the cure?

The cure is looking for something positive — in this case about climate-change. What a relief to learn that I did not have to complain because others were already succeeding in technological ways to successfully provide solutions that slow down and stop negative climate change due to CO2 hazzards for which we can be grateful. Gratitude is the cure to negative complaints.

Below are a few examples, led by India who has achieved the first front to back success story. Others are projects likely to succeed, but not there yet. It's not common that India's technology is the leader. Perhaps it will inspire US research to catch up allowing for a win-win like India.

India - Is the first to remove CO2 and sustain both "old" coal sources and a cleaner environment. Roger Harrabin reports Carbonclean is turning planet-heating emissions into profit by converting CO2 into baking soda. A useful product out of CO2 emissions. The inventors are two young chemists at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur. Failing to find local financing, they accepted UK funds. Their success helps all countries.

Germany - ThyssenKrup Steel project to produce ammonium bicarbonate.

Australia - Is working on a win-win CO2-eating Microalgae as a biofuel feedstock.

Other countries are working on use of adsorption of CO2 to make other sustainable products. We need to grasp that complaints do not provide solutions and can inhibit the hippocampus from achieving solutions. Keeping our brain healthy means we stop complaining and be grateful for every discovered climate-change solution.

Jarryl Larson

Edgecomb