PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • August 24, 2020
Observing the ineptitude of our country in failing to respond to COVID makes me think about how business as usual in general has failed to prioritize the essential. Nature and community, the two most obvious essential aspects of life on Earth, have increasingly suffered. Ecologically, we face decades of ruin to come if we continue cutting the ground out from under us. I hope my fellow peers in the millennial generation, who number around 80 million, along with Generation Z, numbering around 85 million, will be involved to reclaim local control of the essential in areas such as food, energy, commerce and health care. The Maine Power for Maine People initiative to give Mainers control over foreign-owned Central Maine Power would be a great start. ~ Dan White, Georgetown