Meeting to focus on climate superfund

Editor:

Join 350 Roaring Fork at the Buttermilk Lodge on June 18 at 6 p.m. for a Here and Now Tour to promote a climate superfund. The fund would be paid into by the industries responsible for climate disasters such as wildfires, droughts, floods, mudslides, bark beetle infestations and the impact on agriculture and the winter sports industry, so local governments and taxpayers don’t have to pick up the tab.

New York and Vermont have such a fund. California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland and New Jersey have plans to create one. 

The Colorado Fiscal Institute predicts Colorado will incur $1.5 billion in climate damages per year through 2050. The plan is to have the Colorado state legislature take up such a bill in its 2027 session. Failing that, a ballot issue for next year is a possibility.

Come hear what our options are for financial protection from climate catastrophes.

Fred Malo Jr.

Carbondale