Climate change: Pay price now, or pay bigger later

In the turbulent early 20th century, a politician once said, “You might not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”

I believe today we can substitute “climate change” for “war” in that quote.

The storm clouds of man-made climate disruption have been gathering for over 30 years: more hurricanes with greater intensity, wildfires across America have doubled, allergies have worsened, extreme one-day rainfall has increased 80 percent.

As the TNT recently reported, the Antarctic has increased its rate of melting by a factor of four over the past four years. And the last two years in the Arctic have been the warmest on record, warming twice as fast as the rest of the globe.

I take the above quote to mean, “you can pay me now, or pay me later — in spades.”

World climate scientists agree that taxing carbon and moving away from fossil fuels to renewable energy is critical to saving our fragile ecosystems. Join the effort to put a price on carbon, at both the state and national level.