KENNEBEC JOURNAL • February 4, 2021
The piece by the Rev. Richard Killmer expressing hope for the climate crisis was indeed heartening, with its catalog of hopeful developments and actions around the world (“Soaring on ‘wings like eagles’ as we confront climate crisis,” Jan. 21). Missing from the list, however, is the one action all major economists and climate policy modelers share a consensus on: putting a realistic price on carbon pollution. An initiative in Maine called Carbon Cash-Back 4ME seeks to provide towns with the opportunity to endorse the concept of national cash-back carbon pricing at their annual town meetings, and to bring that endorsement to the attention of their state and federal lawmakers. To learn more, see www.carboncashback4me.org. ~ Cynthia Stancioff, Chesterville