Celebrate Mother Earth by going outside, even in the rain, and look all around. Feel the earth under your feet, and take a deep breath of clean air. Celebrate Mother Earth for sustaining you.
When you end this ritual and go back inside, please go to your phone or computer and contact Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey and Representative Richie Neal and ask them to support this solution to stop global warming: “Carbon Fee and Dividend (CFD).”
You can add that several hundred advocates for CFD will be in their offices on June 21 as part of Citizens Climate Lobby to explain all the details and get them to sign up. Here’s the deal: CFD will make it cheaper and more profitable to invest in renewable energies than in fossil fuels. CFD will put a fee on the fuels the moment they leave the ground. Our U.S. tax-collecting structure will collect these fees and redistribute them to every taxpayer in the country.
This is just the barest explanation; you can get more online. But the top scientists on the issue of global warming say this is the most effective way to convince the fuel industry to divest from fossil fuels and invest in renewables — maybe in time to save our Mother Earth.
Sherrill Hogen
Charlemont,