MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • September 26, 2021
I was heartened by the recent editorial (“Our View: Congress gets its last, best chance at meaningful climate action,” Sept. 19), in which the editorial board stresses the catastrophic consequences of climate change and the urgency of taking action to curb the worsening effects of fossil fuels. But their argument ultimately suggests that we should let politics outweigh “literally billions of people” by holding off on carbon pricing for a later bill. As a young Mainer with my life – and hopefully a family of my own – ahead of me, I could not disagree more. Incentivizing clean energy – the editorial board’s favored policy – will go only so far without discouraging carbon pollution at the same time. Now is the time for carbon pricing. ~ Sorrel Dunn, Harrison