The denial of human-caused climate change isn’t so bad until you find yourself paying for destroyed public infrastructure, ruined private property and/or experience lost lives. The number of multi-billion-dollar weather disasters and 1,000-year floods keeps on going up. Expect to pay more for home insurance and to lose economic opportunities as our government will increasingly have to help pay for these disasters. 

It is time to live sustainably and past time for our country to be the world’s leader on this issue. The good news is that we can change if we are willing to. Remember the profound change in technology and industrial production that our country experienced during WWII. We can do it. We can leave a sustainable economy and environment behind for our children and grandchildren to inherit. It is the right thing to do.

 -Tom Mooney

Tom Mooney is a resident of Aspen, Colorado