Letter: Carbon fee, dividend offer a climate change solution

We need to focus on immediately implementing solutions for our changing climate.

One solution is a carbon fee and dividend: placing a fee on carbon, with a dividend – the money collected under the fee – being returned to U.S. households.

Economists agree that putting a price on carbon is the quickest and most effective way to reduce carbon pollution. By placing a fee on carbon, we discourage carbon pollution by making it the more expensive option. By returning the fees collected to U.S. households, through a dividend, 70% of the households will be financially better off.

I encourage you to call or write our Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper and Rep. Lauren Boebert and ask them to take immediate action to address climate change by implementing a bipartisan carbon fee and dividend plan.

Gail C. HarrissDurango