BANGOR DAILY NEWS • December 30, 2020
The Earth has warmed and cooled, been wet and dry many times over millions of years. Mountains were once ocean bottoms and deserts were once lush forests and vice versa. Once, neither pole had ice and what is now separate continents were once a single land mass. Sea levels have raised and lowered and land masses have risen and subsided. The First Peoples burned parts of the forest for hunting and farming. Our land has been drained, dammed, plowed, tarred, covered in concrete and built on. We have the largest population in the history of the planet. Humans have a better chance of surviving climate change than a nuclear winter. Wouldn’t it be wiser to spend those billions on figuring out how to deal with nuclear waste? ~ Edesse Fox, Prospect Harbor