MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • April 5, 2020
A recent column on climate change suggests that “culture” is responsible for public action on a society-wide scale, whether to coronavirus, cigarette smoking or climate change. The evidence that such a position is utterly wrong lies all around us. Fifty thousand all-electric cars have been sold in Quebec, a dozen times more per capita than in Maine, not because its culture is so radically different, but because its provincial government offers rebates four times larger than our state government does. Vermont has 10 times more solar panels per capita than we have in Maine, again because of difference in government policy. ~ Annie Antonacos, Portland