Letter: Pricing carbon will prevent thousands of deaths a year

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • July 14, 2021

As I write, New York subways are flooding because of extremely heavy rainfall. Americans in the West are bracing themselves for yet another record-breaking heat wave, with a little more than a week since the last one, which killed nearly 800 people across Oregon, Washington state and British Columbia. One hundred fifty thousand people die each year because of climate change. Why, then, are we still going about business as usual? When will our senators champion carbon pricing and enact it immediately so that we can experience tangible results in less than a year? ~ Anastasia Antonacos, Portland