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CLIMATE CRISIS

LETTERSBiden should press ahead on a carbon tax
It is unfortunate that the Biden administration sidelined the carbon tax for now, since there is a consensus among economists that it is the most cost-effective way to decrease CO2 emissions.

IDEAS | JOHN MULLIKEN
A pumpjack in the Permian Basin of Texas.
Big Oil gets clean and the world stays dirty
Public pressure on fossil fuel companies can only do so much.

LETTERS
A boat speeds through the Great Marsh in Ipswich in August 2020.
Great Marsh restoration work should be a model for Boston resiliency plans
Let’s not stop at Newbury or Ipswich. Boston itself stands directly in the path of rising sea levels.

LETTERS
Marshfield-1/27/2015 At 530 pm, At the height of high tide, homes and businesses are surrounded by the ocean flooding over the seawall in Brant Rock, Marshfield, Jan. 27, 2015. Boston Globe staff photo by John Tlumacki (metro)
Rising sea levels demand action
Readers respond to the May 31 Opinion package "Climate Crisis Development."

LETTERS
Crisis management for the climate
Readers respond to ”Biden should impose a carbon fee immediately," by James Hansen and Daniel Galpern, Opinion, June 1.

James E. Hansen and Daniel M. Galpern
Emissions from a coal-fired power plant are silhouetted against the setting sun in Independence, Mo. in February, 2021.
Biden should impose a carbon fee immediately
Under the Independent Offices Appropriations Act, the president retains authority to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to impose a fee on greenhouse gas emissions.

Richard W. Murray and Daniel P. Schrag
Cleanup continued along the coastline of Marshfield days after a second nor'easter hit in March 2018.
Managing the climate crisis may require a managed retreat
Some would argue that the easiest building to move is the one that isn’t built in the first place.

Bill Golden
Nasser Brahim, senior planner in climate risk and resiliency at Kleinfelder, displays a flood map of greater Boston in December 2019.
A Boston Harbor coastal resiliency system? ‘Layered defense’
The New Bedford model of coastal resiliency works. Boston should follow suit.

Jocelyn Forbush
A new vision for Boston’s waterfront — and climate resiliency
The city must prioritize redevelopment opportunities for creating resilient, green public spaces before the chance to adapt our shores is lost.

LETTERS
In this May 19, 2020, file photo, Aaron Stubbs and his two children watch the sunset at Joshua Tree National Park in California. The Biden administration is outlining a plan to sharply increase conservation of public lands and waters over the next decade.
In rescue of one baby bird there is a conservation lesson for us all
For years, we’ve watched nature assaulted under economic pretenses. We now know that protecting the lands and ocean that sustain us in fact protects our future.