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Maryland’s elected representatives need to examine their priorities carefully.
Our new president has managed to get it right. On Jan. 16, Barack Obama expressed the need to coordinate economic recovery with the greening of America since neither issue can wait.
Not only are we teetering on the edge of a possible depression but, even more crucially, we’re moving into a climate change crisis that will drastically change human life on Earth unless we act quickly and thoroughly.
Timing is everything. And Maryland’s General Assembly will soon resume its debate on the Global Warming Solutions Act.
The citizens of Maryland are ready to take responsibility for our emissions and curb the pollution we produce.
The Global Warming Solutions Act makes sense not only environmentally but economically. If passed, it would not only address climate change but also stimulate innovation, create jobs and reduce energy costs to consumers and businesses.
Energy-efficiency upgrades would make our power system more secure and reliable by diversifying our energy sources. And clean energy industries would also reduce the effects of global warming.
According to a report from the University of Massachusetts, Maryland’s transition to clean energy could create more than 36,000 jobs over two years.
It’s time to get started in the fight against global warming, and there’s no better way for Maryland to do so right now than to pass the warming solutions bill. Patricia DunlapTall Timbers