MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • March 8, 2020
Coronavirus is the current headline and scare. Yet fewer than 4,000 have died worldwide. 52,000 Europeans died by heatstroke in 2003. Climate change is causing an increased frequency of heat waves. Together with wildfires, floods and increased storm intensity, they are climate-related, death-causing problems that we are coming to see as the new normal. All are related to CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels. The U.S. should take the lead, with the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act. Climate change is a threat larger and longer-lasting than coronavirus. ~ Peter Garrett, Winslow