Letter to the Editor: Take lead on climate change
Letter to the Editor in The Spokane Spokesman-Review.
"A recent report from the Climate Leadership Initiative at the University of Oregon emphasizes the need for the Washington state Legislature to pass Gov. Gregoire’s cap-and-invest bill, citing the economic costs for Washington state of a “business-as-usual approach to climate change.”
The report states that households will see annual costs rise $1,250 by 2020, $1,800 in 2040 and $2,750 in 2080, primarily in the form of energy inefficiencies and rising health care costs associated with climate change. Businesses will suffer as income is diverted to these unproductive costs, not to mention lower worker productivity and lost investment opportunities in the rapidly expanding green economy..."
