Local activist continues battle against climate change
News May 6, 2019
HIAWASSEE, Ga. – Dr. Vernon Dixon, a local activist, claimed there is growing concern among Republicans about climate change Sunday, May 5. The environmentalist appeared before Hiawassee City Council in early August of last year, striving to gain approval of a resolution intended to apply pressure on Congress. The city council ultimately declined to enact a carbon emission tax on producers – at the well, mine, or port – which potentially coud have provided a dividend return for Hiawassee.
Dr. Vernon Dixon at the 2019 Earth Day event on Hiawassee Town Square
Although denied enactment by the City of Hiawassee, Dr. Dixon continues to encourage residents of Towns County to support bipartisan legislation to address climate change. “The bipartisan Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Bill, HR 763, is just such legislation,” Dixon said. “It is a conservative, market driven solution to climate change that would add millions of new American jobs.
“During the recent debate about the Paris Climate Agreement, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the highest ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said, ‘We can all agree that climate is changing. We need to take positive steps to address it.’ He argued that Congress should commit to a bipartisan approach to climate action.
“During the same discussion, Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.), the highest ranking Republican on the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, said he, too, wished that the House was considering bipartisan legislation on climate change. ‘I fully agree that the climate is changing. I agree humans are contributing to that change,’ he said. ‘I agree there’s something we need to do about this, and we need to be aggressive.'”
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Climate change has and is “changing” on this planet, to some degree, for hundreds of thousands of years. That is the only proven fact in this whole “climate change” cottage industry. The extent mankind has/is playing in this cyclic event is not clear nor is our ability to stop it. At the end of the day the planet will do what the planet will do. For the greatest extent we and all on it are along for the ride. Should we be attuned to our impacts to our atmosphere? Of course! The US has been working to “clean up its act for decades”. Not so with three quarters of the rest of the world population. Taxing our carbon footprint will not resolve that. If you subscribe to the argument that humankind is a prime source of climate change then logically the solution would be to stop over-populating the planet.