As the evidence and impacts continue to mount, we continue to resist the systematic change that we know will reduce greenhouse gas emissions: Increase the price of fossil fuels.
We know, like any other commodity, we consume less, or will find other means to satisfy a perceived need, as the price increases. When the cost of fossil fuels (coal, gasoline, fuel oil, natural gas, etc.) increases, we will reduce consumption. When this cost increase through a carbon tax is neutralized by cost reductions in income tax, we allow the economy to seek the solution.
We keep talking the talk but are unwilling to accept walking the walk. By controlling the price of fossil fuels to force the reductions needed, we can begin to slow and/or reverse human-induced climate change.
How much more must we be told by the world's scientists before we begin to act? How much more must the glaciers retreat or disappear? How hot must it get? How many extreme weather events must happen? How much of our children's tomorrow must we sacrifice?
Perhaps you've been too busy to hear or read about: Record wild fires, record drought, record-setting temperatures, record melting of arctic sea ice, the warmest six months on record, an iceberg greater than the size of Manhattan falling off Greenland, the impact on crops, the spreading diseases and pests, floods we've never known, etc.
What will it take before we decide to act?
EDWARD BENNETT
Ballston Lake