Every year, every month, every day counts.

• Author: Campbell, Brad

TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR US TO TAKE SIGNIFICANT ACTION IN CUTTING CLIMATE-DAMAGING EMISSIONS IN NEW ENGLAND and in the country as a whole. The good news is that we are making progress.

But the reality is that we don't have any more time to wait. Extreme weather is already taking lives and increasing pollution. We can brook no more delays, no more stall tactics, no more false solutions. We need those who persist in putting up barriers to progress to step up or step aside. We need those who would lull us into complacency with greenwashed solutions to invest in real answers. And we need those who are responsible for the climate crisis and sowed decades of doubt about its origins to pay for the harms resulting from their deliberate duplicity.

It's also time to recognize that the climate crisis is not only an environmental issue--nor are its solutions. It is an economic issue, a public health issue, and a social justice issue. It requires new levels of collaboration among business, political, healthcare, energy, and NGO leaders. And it requires us all to maintain a laser focus on our ultimate goal: net-zero...