BANGOR DAILY NEWS • September 25, 2021
We don’t need reports to remind us that in the past 200 years human beings have changed the climate; we see the results every day. Since DDT was banned, I often see eagles and osprey. There is so much we need to change quickly that the enormity of that responsibility brings despair, but that is not enough. “What destruction am I blessed by?” wrote poet A.R. Ammons. Severe storms, wildfires — the signs of destruction increase. The blessing is that more people begin to see them and understand we must work together for change with purpose not despair. ~ Barbara Kent Lawrence, Camden