Letter: State should lead in climate change policy

State should lead in climate change

policy

Dear Editor,

Climate change is a global emergency on the scale of—and of greater consequence than—the Second World War. And, yet, this country’s environmental and regulatory policies barely acknowledge that climate change is even “a thing.” Climate science assumes change and attempts to quantify how it is changing; yet it wasn’t even brought up in recent “presidential” “debates.”

If the global average temperature increases any more than 2°C (3.4°F), crops will begin to fail around the world. We will see food shortages that our great grandparents barel...