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It was wonderful to read Maui County Council Member Kelly King's column (The Maui News, Viewpoint, Dec. 28). I applaud the council's Oct. 4 Resolution 10-166 to include a state bill for 2020 legislation to address sea level rise. Additionally, their Dec. 20 Resolution 19-209 begins a "just transition to a safe climate'' with new policies of solutions to climate change emergencies.
Hopefully, the council's just-transition resolutions will progress to carbon neutral energy solutions. There is 97 percent scientific consensus that climate change is man-made. Many U.S. residents feel that we need rapid solutions, which must be nonpartisan. Hopefully, the U.S. Congress will enact solutions, for which they created the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus. One solution to climate change that's good for the economy is Carbon Fee and Dividend. A revenue-neutral carbon fee is a conservative solution, because it uses the power of the marketplace to solve the problem rather than government regulation. There are currently seven carbon tax bills in Congress.
To facilitate and speed legislation, voters need to make their desire for bipartisan carbon fee and dividend solutions known to their members of Congress. Contact your U.S. senators and representatives by letter or email.
Let us prevent climate change emergencies that put us in a situation like Wiley Coyote, as if we have jumped out of an airplane without a parachute, and now we must knit a parachute on the way down.
Carol H. Cam
Lahaina