OPINION: Climate change affects us all in Alaska

The Goose Fire is seen burning in the Yukon Flats in northeast Alaska, about 41 miles east of Fort Yukon, on Aug. 4, 2022. Wildfires are part of the Yukon Flats ecosystem, but as the climate warms, they have become more intense over the long term and are releasing large amounts of carbon as they burn the forest-floor duff and thaw the permafrost below.

Fortunately, electric energy produced at grid-connected solar farms can be virtually free, given the initial investment in transmission systems. Under Biden’s plan, artificial intelligence would be employed to detect fires throughout the nation and Canada so they could be quickly smothered. Biden has urged that this be a worldwide effort.

These are but a few of the possibilities for limiting CO2. Yes, businesses and livelihoods would be affected, but we are talking about the continuation of life on earth. A delay — of even a decade — in reducing CO2 emissions would lock in large-scale, irreversible change. The Economist article concludes by speculating, “Alas, it is easy — perhaps too easy — to imagine instead an Anthropocene which is nasty, brutish and short... perhaps, in time, civilization would grow back up, perhaps not.”

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