Climate concerns me greatly yet it appears to have been put on the back burner. We still have global warming. I know because I am a gardener. Each year produces new challenges for me: what to plant, when to plant and how to gain enough water to keep plants alive. LD 2037 supports the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which supports decreasing the greenhouse gasses that add to global warming. LD 1870 would support some financial incentives for people to lower their carbon emissions. These two bills need support from everyone. 

To turn a blind eye to this worldwide problem would be like terminating all family trees, and burning their roots. We cannot sit back and do nothing. My husband and I gave up buying toys, going out to dinner regularly, going to shows and forfeited many vacations so that we could run our house with solar. We are a hybrid system, so we do put back some power into the grid. We have not paid an electric bill in 14 years, bar the time we disconnected to do ground work. We have cleaned up our footprint; we’ve made a difference, no matter how small.

Many of us could do this, and yes, like us, it means giving up something. Giving up something before we have famine, before fire burns us down, before rain floods us out and before wind destroys our everything; before rebuilding becomes impossible. It is time to act and put our dreams aside for now. 

Ann Pedreschi
Holden