KENNEBEC JOURNAL • October 6, 2020
Our planet is experiencing accelerating impacts of climate change, with increasingly deadly and destructive consequences. And at the very moment that these hardships are being felt by so many, crucial elements of the social safety net, literal lifelines for the most vulnerable members of our society, are frayed. Climate change impacts are here now, and a strong and decisive response is required from federal and state leaders to address these present and emerging threats. What’s at stake is the last real chance we have to meet the climate crisis with bold federal and state policies that have the power to reshape the trajectory of climate impacts now and for generations to come. ~ Anna McGinn, policy associate, Environmental and Energy Study Institute, and Brieanne Berry, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology at UMaine