Climate change is an existential crisis. It is the most profound crisis our species has faced in the last 10,000 years, and it is accelerating.

Bernie Sanders gets it. His plan to grapple with this challenge, stated in great detail at berniesanders.com, clearly spells out a set of comprehensive measures to bring carbon emissions to zero within the next couple of decades. But that isn’t all. Bernie understands that 30 years of inaction on the part of the global community has made emission reductions alone inadequate. Because of the internal dynamics of Earth’s climate system, we are now in a spiral of increasingly severe consequences, from coastal flooding, to the loss of the thin veil of topsoil on which 95% of our food supply depends, to shrinking supplies of fresh water, increasingly severe heat waves, drought, economic and political strife, and many other interlocking consequences that threaten the foundations of our civilization. We have to adapt, and fast, to this gathering climate crisis.

Bernie’s plan addresses all of these, and includes the creation of millions of green jobs badly needed in the fields of energy, transportation, public land management, agriculture, forestry and many other areas. That’s why I’m voting for Bernie in the New Hampshire Democratic primary election.

SAM MILLER

Campton