MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • November 20, 2022
In last year’s unprecedented joint message for the protection of creation, the worldwide leaders of the Catholic, Orthodox and Episcopal communions emphasized addressing climate change is the moral imperative of our time. We therefore call on our leaders – political and corporate, civil and community – to accelerate their efforts to phase out the carbon pollution that chiefly fuels the climate crisis. A carbon fee applied at the fossil fuel point of origin – whether an oil well, a coal mine, or a fracking site – galvanizes the power of market to incentivize efficiency and innovation in cleaner energy, while creating jobs and saving lives. ~ Bishop Thomas Brown, Episcopal Diocese of Maine, Monsignor Charles Murphy, Catholic Diocese of Maine, and Archdeacon John Chryssavgis, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew