But, says Marc Breslow, director of Massachusetts Climate Action Network, there’s much more to be done. While Massachusetts has “existing regulations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions for the six dirtiest electricity power plants, Romney’s currently trying to weaken them, setting a cap on how much the plants would have to pay. And if it exceeds that, they’d just have to pay the cap as a fine and wouldn’t have to clean up.”
The good news, Breslow says, is that “I don’t think there is ever a ‘too late.’ It’s true, we’re already too late to prevent some of the effects of global warming. But I don’t think there’s gonna be a ‘too late.’ ”
But changes need to be made. Now. “We need a new, sustainable paradigm,” says Paul Epstein. He thinks we can do it. After all, he says, “necessity is the mother of invention.”
On the Web
The National Environment Trust: http://www.net.org/
CLIMB's full report: http://www.net.org/reports/climb_fullreport.pdf
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