MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • October 4, 2020
We’re in the thick of two great wars right now, one just in front of us and the other, by far the larger, rumbling loudly in the distance. The COVID war we’re fighting today will, in the end, kill hundreds of thousands of Americans and millions of people around the world. But over time it might seem a mere skirmish before the larger war with climate change, which has the potential to flood and burn the country, as we’re seeing today in the South and West, and to extinguish entire species, including our own. ~ Alan Caron, Freeport