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York Township approves climate change resolution at annual meeting York Township residents rallied Tuesday, April 10, in support of a climate change resolution to be included on the November 2018 ballot. Area residents Heidi Hartmann and Kyle Kalinich, co-chairs of the local chapter of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, submitted the advisory question for Tuesday’s annual meeting, and more than 100 township residents voted to include the resolution in November: “Shall our Representatives and Senators in the U.S. Congress sponsor and/or support measures that will address the serious threat posed by climate change?” The same request was submitted two years ago, but failed to pass at the annual meeting. Hartmann says a lot has changed since then. Resident involved with CCL addresses Board “There is much more evidence that climate change is happening and that it is caused by human activities,” Hartmann said. “Both 2016 and 2017 were the warmest years on record. The level of human tragedy caused by extreme weather events – including hurricanes, wildfires and mudslides – are credibly linked to climate change.” She suggests there are many ways to reduce the impacts of climate change, including the increased use of renewable energy sources, better farming practices, reduced food waste and increased energy efficiency. “It is going to take a focused, committed and long-term effort to significantly reduce emissions and slow
climate change, and it is extremely important to tell our lawmakers that we want them to address this,” she added.
Other area citizens weigh in… The resolution was also backed by Mark Stenftenagel, an Oak Brook business owner and CEO of the Corporate Climate Alliance. “I started paying attention when I realized climate change was going to affect my businesses,” he said. “There was $300 billion in damage last year due to climate related
weather, and we really need to start thinking about how we are going to pay for this in the future. We’ve already got a crazy deficit … how are we going to keep bailing people out?” Lombard resident Linda Sullivan spoke about her experience with flooding. “When I moved in to my home in 1976, my basement didn’t flood for the first 15 years,” she said. “Then it flooded in a ‘once-in-100-years’ rain event. And then it flooded five years later in another ‘once-in-100-years’
rain. Now we have them every two to three years.”
‘Don’t kid yourself,’ it affects us all Sullivan said that while you may not flood, or think climate change doesn’t affect you, think again. “We have FEMA insurance and a $2,000 deductible every two to three years when our basements flood,” she said, “but taxpayers all over the country pay to buy us all new appliances, remodel basements. “Sometimes it seems like there is
a warm and fuzzy side talking about the need to protect the animals and flowers, and then there are the coldeyed realists who say this is going to cost too much. But what is the cost of not doing something about climate change? “I hope this will be a bi-partisan vote because climate change effects all of us.” The advisory question was overwhelmingly approved Tuesday night, which leaves the final say in the hands of York Township voters on Nov. 6.
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Volunteer venturers assist Potato Drop
On Saturday, April 14, about 40,000 pounds of potatoes to be distributed to Chicago area food pantries and churches were part of Calvary United Methodist Church’s annual ‘potato drop.’ The entire semi-trailer full of spuds was unloaded in less than two hours, thanks to volunteers like the Venturing Crew #57 from St. John’s Church in Lombard.
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