Here's everything you need to know about one of the 2020 election's hottest topics.
As the 2020 election cycle heats up, climate change has become a major election year issue for many voters. In fact, when Next Avenue asked its readers for the election issues that matter most to them, climate change was No. 1. The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication found that about half of registered voters said they’d vote for a candidate for public office because of his or her stance on global warming.
What could be done to reduce climate change? Controlling the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere will control the temperature of the Earth. Almost all the recent greenhouse gas releases have been from human activities, including burning fossil fuels, using carbon-rich industrial products and poor agricultural and forestry practices.
The political and profit-based limits are currently a complete unknown, but the climate change projections based on business-as-usual appear frightening. Also, the U.S. government could institute a fee-and-dividend system to further encourage carbon-free energy and products. This system would add a fee to all products manufactured by the use of fossil fuels or that emit carbon. This effectively would put a fee on carbon pollution. The money collected would be distributed to all U.S. citizens, in equal amounts, in monthly dividend checks.
The scale of needed investment could be comparable to the Marshall Plan, which cost the U.S. approximately $103 billion in today’s dollars, or the Apollo Program, which cost $288 billion in today’s dollars.
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