As a constituent of Rep. Lauren Boebert, I like to follow her work.

Recently she introduced the Paris Agreement Constitutional Treaty Act. It prohibits any actions being taken or money spent to carry out the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement before Senate approval and ratification. She said, “America shouldn’t spend a penny on the Paris Agreement.”

As a forester with a 40-year career and many years’ experience in the Rocky Mountain region, I strongly oppose her position and request that she withdraw this proposed act.

I worked with natural resource managers, scientists and university faculty members across the United States and the world and studied the issue of climate change in detail. The conclusion of virtually all my contacts and my own study is our world’s climate is changing and humans have a significant role in this change.

In my career, I have personally witnessed the unprecedented and massive impact on our environment. This includes an unprecedented rise in atmospheric carbon, bark beetle damage in forests, wildfire, damaging storms, early melt of snowpack and drought.

The time to act is now and every day that we waste puts the world, including Boebert’s district, in greater jeopardy. My town, Durango, is in the epicenter of its bad effects. The U.S. should quickly rejoin the Paris Agreement. I request that Congresswoman Boebert reverse her stance on the Paris Climate Agreement and support rejoining it.

George Sam FosterDurangoEditor’s note: President Biden issued an executive order on Jan. 20 to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement.