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A frightening future is coming by mid-century, according to 153 winners of Nobel and World Food prizes. Weather changes are causing more and more crop failures, and war is a common response when countries begin starving. Our Joint Chiefs of Staff have been warning us for a decade that climate change is the biggest threat to world stability. Global conflicts affect the world economy, even our’s, here in the United States. And this is just one of the many crises that climate change is quickly bringing us.
Congress needs to fund research on sustainable agriculture. However, the long-term solution is to decrease climate change: increase renewable energy sources and eliminate tax subsidies and preferential regulatory treatment for fossil fuels (e.g., through Public Utility Commissions and ISO New England). Communicate with the people in charge (politicians, commissioners)!
This is about politics, but it shouldn’t be. It’s about giving our children a chance at good lives.
Richard Thomas
Waterville