"Don’t
care about climate change? You soon will, because like it or not, it must be
dealt with. And if we don’t start caring, the EPA and other agencies will
continue to put regulations in place, effectively deciding winners and
losers.
But
there’s good news--two south Florida congressmen, Carlos Curbelo-R and Ted
Deutch-D recently created the Climate Solutions Caucus to propose
clean energy legislation. They want to
keep it bipartisan, with an even number of Rs and Ds. You see, they’ve
found something in common—they both represent people witnessing climate change
in its starkest terms: Their communities are slipping into the sea at a
disturbing rate.
Citizens’
Climate Lobby proposes an additional fee be placed on carbon at its source, with
all collected monies returned to the American people. This would result
in the free market achieving reductions in emissions while also stimulating the
economy. Canada has just announced its resolve to find a national climate
solution—with carbon fee and dividend at the forefront of their thinking.
As
Republican Curbelo says, “ignoring climate change is as irresponsible as
ignoring our national debt—and the longer we delay acting the more painful the
solution will be.”
Twyla Smith
Submitted March, 2016
Unpublished
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