Scope

While awareness and understanding of human caused climate disruption appears to have increased significantly in recent months and years, I believe we still have not yet grasped the scope of the challenge, the benefits of the solutions, nor the magnitude of the effort we must mount to meet our circumstances. A Denver Post Op-Ed article yesterday by John Podesta and Timothy Wirth expresses this view when they write:

 

“The size and urgency of this task require a president willing to make it the top domestic priority in the White House — not pigeonholed as an energy initiative or environmental initiative or even as a security initiative, but made the centerpiece of his economic agenda. Indeed, it will demand that the president refocus the mission and responsibility of all relevant government agencies and convene them in a new National Energy Council in the White House.”

Big Box and a New Downtown in Falmouth?

This week’s Forecaster has an article on “big box” developments in Falmouth and Cumberland. It reports that the Falmouth Town Council rejected a development recently, and is now considering another.