SUN JOURNAL • December 20, 2020
The environment used to be a part of our political discourse. We used to care about reducing our carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. President Trump, his policies, and his dangerous rhetoric aren’t the only reasons for why we aren’t talking about the environment. Over the past nine months, the COVID-19 health crisis has diverted our nation’s attention away from climate change. If we can develop, produce, and distribute a vaccine within the span of a year, what could we accomplish if we were equally dedicated to slowing global warming? We should have started working on climate change yesterday, but if we don’t start today, the media headlines in the coming decades will be even more grim than they were in 2020. ~ Reed Foster, Brunswick, Bowdoin College senior