LETTER: Carbon pricing can defeat global warming

I was gratified to work the front-page communicative astir Vice President Kamala Harris’s caller sojourn to Las Vegas. Her absorption was connected the melodramatic driblet successful Lake Mead’s h2o level owed to the ongoing terrible drought, thing we’re each precise acrophobic about. We cognize clime alteration is affecting not lone Nevada but our full world.

One request lone remember, if we are to combat clime change, we indispensable invited each strategies that are apt to beryllium effective, careless of their origin, arsenic this situation should not beryllium politicized. I was impressed with the thoroughness of the study and appreciated Ms. Harris’s comments connected the clime policies promoted by President Joe Biden. Now it is up to Congress to act.

There are galore imaginable strategies successful the bipartisan infrastructure bill. One that would beryllium precise effectual arsenic a catalyst for the others is putting a terms connected carbon. Carbon pricing would efficaciously fto marketplace forces trim c emissions, and returning the fees collected to American households arsenic dividends would assistance radical woody with perchance higher vigor prices. Analyses amusement that low-income radical would payment the astir from the dividends, but different affirmative result of c pricing would beryllium the innovation that would hap arsenic companies modulation to cleaner forms of vigor successful bid to debar the annually escalating fees.

We tin promote Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, who sits connected the Finance Committee successful the Senate, to enactment c pricing arsenic an effectual accelerant for clime policies. Any argumentation that efficaciously addresses clime alteration volition payment america successful the agelong tally by reducing the interaction of our worsening drought.