CENTRAL MAINE • May 29, 2024
When we consider the climate crisis, the evidence is clear and frightening: Conditions are becoming shockingly worse for the world, the United States, and Maine. Killing heat waves, rising sea levels, raging wildfires, and spreading diseases: “global weirding’s” impacts make headlines nearly every day. In Maine we’ve become all too familiar with more frequent severe storms that cause flooding, coastal devastation, and mass power outages. Worldwide, 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded; so far, 2024 is even hotter. Will our future be more secure and livable under either presidential candidate? President Biden’s commitment to combat global warming stands in stark contrast to the the previous Trump administration. The contrast between presidential candidates could not be more stark than in climate strategy. ~ David Vail, Professor of Economics emeritus at Bowdoin College and a member of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby Economics Research Network