MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • July 4, 2021
I picked up a couple of extra shifts doing clerical work at a walk-in clinic last weekend and found myself on the front line of climate change. Tick bites, browntail moth rashes, heat issues. Maine’s climate and weather patterns have changed. Summers are hotter, winters are shorter but, paradoxically, have more intense and destructive storms. I don’t know how anyone who has grown up in Maine can be a climate change denier. The world will continue to be OK-ish enough to live in for the baby boomer generation. But not for millennials. And what about our children? Meanwhile, our politicians are arguing. The road is getting shorter, and when we get to the end of it, we are going to find an awful lot of kicked cans. ~ Victoria Hugo-Vidal