No one can deny that everyone must care better for nature. Our environmental abuses are conspiring together in a polycrisis that threatens all we hold dear, writes Andrew Hartley.
On May 18, U.S. Representatives Sean Casten (IL-06), Elissa Slotkin (MI-07), and Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Conservation Opportunity and Voluntary Environment Resilience Program (COVER) Act with original co-sponsor Representative Mike Bost (IL-12). This bill will provide a $5/acre crop insurance discount to farmers who plant cover crops to incentivize this important soil health practice, building on the federal Pandemic Cover Crop Program.
Reach out to your local, state, and federal leaders. Tell them to support policies that ensure a healthy and livable future for humanity. That should not be a partisan issue.