Fight climate change with carbon dividend

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have skyrocketed to the unprecedented level of 415 ppm, according to an article in USA Today May 13. This is the highest recorded level in human history and will ultimately lead to catastrophic consequences. We need to reduce carbon dioxide levels and the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (H.R. 763) does just that. This policy will:

• Reduce emissions by at least 40% in the first 12 years through technology innovation and ingenuity;

• Improve health and save lives;

• Create 1.2 million new jobs;

• Put money back into people's pockets each month in the form of a carbon dividend.

Please contact your representatives and ask them to support this bill. We must reduce carbon dioxide levels or face the prospect of an earth that will someday become uninhabitable. It is our moral responsibility to do so.

Joseph Reitmeyer

Mount Prospect