Mt. Kisco Voters Concerned About Climate Change Should Support Patino
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I was pleased to see in a written statement that one of the candidates for Mount Kisco village trustee listed planning for climate change as a top priority. That candidate is current Trustee Karine Patino. She stated that Mount Kisco must include sustainability and resiliency in all of its plans. That is the type of leadership that our village needs.
Regardless of what occurs with emissions over the next two or three decades, the climate will continue changing as it has been for many years due to global warming, which has mainly resulted from greenhouse gas emissions from human sources. Village trustees have to deal with numerous issues, so priorities matter. It is a paradox that while at the global level climate change represents arguably the worst threat humans have ever faced, at the local level there are so many everyday problems affecting residents that climate change can get more or less lost.
Trustee Patino is serving on a village team that includes staff and volunteers that I also serve on as a volunteer, which is working on adaptation to climate change. This demonstrates that she has the opportunity to learn about this issue in considerable depth, and if she wins another term, it would help her provide leadership on this issue.
Mount Kisco usually has uncontested elections for trustee. But this year is different. For voters concerned about how climate change will affect Mount Kisco in the years ahead, a vote for Karine Patino seems like a wise choice.
Robert Liebman
Mount Kisco
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