PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • September 6, 2021
The recent International Panel on Climate Change report clearly states that carbon dioxide, resulting from fossil fuels, is the main driver of climate change. An antidote to feeling overwhelmed is to join efforts to shape federal policy on climate. One leading idea currently in Congress would set an annually-increasing price on carbon that fossil fuel corporations would pay, with a dividend provision to protect consumers from the burden of rising fuel prices. Emissions would drop as alternative energy becomes more affordable. Contact our senators and representative in Washington, D.C., and urge them to put carbon pricing in the reconciliation bill that will soon be finalized. ~ Tom Berry, Kennebunk