MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • November 24, 2024
When the time comes, our legislators in Augusta owe it to the Maine Climate Council to promptly and effectively act on the good and valuable work carried out by that new body this year. If the reshuffle in D.C. will lead to the upending of priorities feared by many, the time to act on those endangered priorities is now. The only relevant costs when it comes to climate – indeed enormous – won’t be borne by ratepayers but by our children and our grandchildren. Maine alone can’t stop climate change – there is no argument there. But a critical mass of us must understand that mitigating it is a necessarily collective effort.