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<webBody><p>The recent report on the true costs of climate change as we experience it now [“<a href="https://www.recorder.com/Climate-destruction-fuels-growing-sector-of-th… destruction fuels growing sector of the U.S. economy</a>, Recorder, Oct. 8] explains starkly how climate change, right here in Massachusetts, is hitting us all in the pocketbook. Examples: rising property insurance rates, and flooding-related construction-surge building material inflation at the commonwealth level.</p><p>As temperatures keep rising, the costs will keep rising, too. But the old saying, “a stitch in time saves nine,” applies to our current situation — the more we can do now to prevent climate change, the less it will cost us down the road. Strong action on the local, state and national levels is our best bet.</p><p>Bill Beckett</p><p>Watertown</p></webBody><br/>

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