Important
Windham Clothes Closet update!
If
you are dropping clothing or items off at the Windham Clothes Closet, please
bring them there between 9:00-3:00 Monday through Thursday. Please do not leave
them down back behind the building as they will not fare well during inclement
weather. If you need to make arrangements to drop items off outside of these
times and days call 892-1931.
Thank
you for your donations and please let your neighbors know that the clothing there
is free, and the hours are Monday and Tuesday from 10 a.m. to noon.
The
Windham Clothes Closet
Dear Editor,
Opinion – The U.S. Should not pull out of the Paris
Accords
When President Trump announced its intent to pull America
out of the Paris Accords of the United Nations Framework for Climate Change
(UNFCCC), the U.S. will abdicate a leadership role in confronting the climate
change debate. Our country, along with China and India now account for 40%
of the worldwide emissions of greenhouse gases from fossil fuel use.
The Paris Agreement is an attempt to slow the growth of
atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions and keep Earth's temperature below a 3.6F
increase from pre-Industrial Revolution levels. Otherwise, this science
suggests that Earth will reach a “tipping point” at which climate changes are
irreversible and no further reductions would slow the onset of climate
change.
Science also tells us that the weather extremes,
flooding, prolonged droughts, wildfires, sea level rise will continue throughout
the next decades and lead to human suffering through famine, loss of crop
habitat, and displaced populations. The drought in Syria (circa 2011) that
led to mass migration to Europe was a direct result of a prolonged drought that
made agriculture untenable and created a loss of livestock.
While our Sebago Lake region home may be immune to some
of these effects of climate change, we ALL, nevertheless, pay a price for these
hardships in the form of higher insurance premiums, more expensive food
products, snow removal, road maintenance, travel disruption, and disaster
relief here and abroad. Our exposure to destructive winter storms and summer
heat waves and hurricanes most certainly will continue.
I urge that you write to President Trump to reconsider his
decision to pull out of the Accords in November 2020. The nations of the
world are in a war that it started, in the name of progress, and now
proliferate with excesses in greenhouse gas emissions.
On a moral ground, civilizations have a duty to save the
planet from the ravages of climate change. Naysayers and those that ignore this
problem and think that there will be an ultimate “technology-fix” are sadly
misinformed and add nothing to the public discourse: they disfigure Vice
President Gore's “inconvenient truth.” in their apathy.
Ray Whittemore
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