A recent story by the Associated Press highlights the dilemma of Alaskan villages that are being destroyed by climate change: flooding from rising seas, land erosion.

Inhabitants face the choice of strengthening their defenses – difficult – or moving an entire village – maybe even more difficult.

The Pioneer Valley is relatively landlocked. But much of Massachusetts, and the United States, is not. Cape Cod, are you listening? Boston’s Seaport District?

And even here, we get floods from local rivers. There’s a limit to how long we can pretend that climate change is coming for someone else, far away, in a small village.

It’s coming for all of us, soon. And the current administration continues to push for more fossil fuel use.

Apparently we need to yell louder.

SUSAN DONALDSON, Northamp

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