MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • January 2, 2022
For more than 150 years we have been building our cultures on the burning of fossil fuels. We have been using coal, oil and natural gas because they have been abundant, inexpensive and seemingly unlimited in supply. Scientists have been telling us for many years that there will be prices to pay. But nobody has taken the scientists seriously enough to take truly meaningful actions. Now we are well into paying that price with the heating of the atmosphere and all the weather events that have followed. We need a complete modification of our economic systems, our financial systems, our agricultural systems and our transportation systems. We must make these monumental changes if we want to accomplish the goal of saving most life on our planet. Anything short of that will be blowing in the wind. ~ Len Frenkel, South Portland