MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • February 25, 2024
The climate is changing. Winters are getting steadily warmer; this year is the warmest on record. It is devastating to think about next year being just as bad, unfathomable to realize it will continue to get worse. I am only a privileged teenager complaining about skiing disappearing. People can ignore me. But they cannot ignore the 12,000 lives taken in 2023 because of climate change. We cannot condone a dystopian future by lazily ignoring the problem. We have a solution: support carbon fees and dividends. Check out Citizens’ Climate Lobby for ideas. ~ Thea Dugas, Portland