Hawaii House Concurrent Resolution 124 and Senate Concurrent Resolution 200 call on the federal government to price carbon and return the revenues to people.

HCR124 will be voted on by the House soon. It would help if ASAP people asked our Hawaii members of Congress on Oahu to support this.

Whether it’s called Carbon Cashback as in Hawaii, or Carbon Fee and Dividend nationally, the policy will cut global warming emissions.

Some 40 countries have already adopted carbon pricing. It increases demand for more sustainable energy, needed to avoid more heat-related deaths, coastal erosion, more frequent and intense hurricanes, floods, drought, fires, destruction of ecosystems and disruptions of food production.

The cash or dividend is a rebate for families to exceed increases in fuel costs. Migrants are escaping the effects of climate change; these dispossessed people can only try to protect themselves.

We in America must get on board with pricing carbon to help all living beings while we can.

Bobbie Best

Wailuku