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Two Midwesterners are riding their bikes across the country to talk about Climate Change.

Mindy Ahler and Ryan Hall with Low Carbon Crossings are trekking over 4000 miles in 11 weeks to discuss climate solutions, and stopped in Pella this week to talk with the Central College Sustainability Department and others on campus.

Ahler tells KNIA/KRLS News despite climate change often times being a politically divisive issue, there are solutions that can appeal to both sides of the otherwise partisan political aisle.

“We work with the Citizens Climate Lobby, which is a nationwide, volunteer organization that has a proposal called carbon fee and dividend,” she says. “And we think that will help in bridging that political divide, because it puts a price on carbon, takes all of the revenue that’s collected, and gives it back to households.”

“So it is a market-driven, revenue-neutral solution that a lot conservatives can look at and go ‘oh, maybe that’s not such a bad idea’.”

Ahler believes it will take bipartisan efforts to enact legislation necessary to prevent extreme possibilities climate change may pose in the next century.

Hear more about the Low Carbon Crossings ride on Let’s Talk Pella.