While the cause of climate change is debated, no one doubts that the climate is changing, become warmer, and will continue to do so in the future.

From my perspective of nearly 80 years, from working in the Arctic particularly, temperatures are accelerating at a significant and alarming rate.

At my age. nothing scares hell out of me. I'm not going to be around to experience climate change's worst effects. Mitigating those effects, however, makes sense to me.

An analogy perhaps is our members' obligations to stop increasing erosion of what we perceive as rights or significant elements of our culture. To do nothing is to surrender and render defeat.