Opinion: Climate alarmism redux

MAINE WIRE (Maine Policy Institute) • September 19, 2021

Maine’s green advocates on the environmental left have successfully demonized capitalism, perfected apocalyptic fear mongering as an agenda-setting and fundraising strategy, established environmentalism as a secular state religion (with taxpayers filling up the collection plate), all the while managing to avoid any accountability for the negative consequences of their actions. Governor Mills ran as full-fledged climate alarmist and empaneled a climate change policy task force, which recommended we increase public land ownership to 30% of the state. Perhaps someday the environmental left’s stranglehold on Maine’s political culture will be broken. ~ Jon Reisman, associate professor of economics and public policy, University of Maine at Machias