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Once again, Connecticut lawmakers are trying to embed environmental control into our state constitution by declaring the government the “trustee” of our water, land, and air. It sounds noble—until you realize what it really means: the government, not the individual, will decide what is best for your own property.

If passed, this so-called “Green Amendment” would fundamentally change the relationship between citizens and their land. It would give the state power to interpret and enforce vague environmental standards, potentially overruling personal property rights and local control. And they want to make it permanently baked into our constitution.

That is not environmental stewardship. That’s authoritarianism with a green label.

Our founders warned us about this. The Declaration of Independence clearly states that all men are created equal, “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,” among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Private property is at the core of that pursuit. Yet now, under the guise of “climate justice,” Connecticut seeks to upend that founding principle and place the state above the citizen.

Let’s be clear: this is not a theoretical debate. In our town, there’s serious discussion about making it illegal for homeowners to cut down trees on their own land without permission. What’s next—permits to mow your lawn? Limits on backyard gardens? Well, maybe not Greenwich where we know certain officials approved of cutting down a plethora of trees in a wetland.

Meanwhile, the very state pushing for this constitutional control can’t even manage its own environmental responsibilities. Just look at the Norwich State Hospital property—a prime example of government neglect. Over twenty plus years after the site was vacated, it remains a partially demolished, polluted hazard. The state has given part of it away, while the rest sits abandoned and unsafe. If Connecticut wants to be a trustee, it should start by cleaning up its own mess.

Yet the most infuriating part of this agenda is how disconnected it is from global reality. Connecticut could stop all fossil fuel use tomorrow, and it would make zero difference to the planet’s climate. Why? Because countries like China and India continue to burn coal at record levels to power their growing economies. These are nations with populations and emissions hundreds of times larger than ours—and they are not about to stop.

In contrast, we’re told to scale back, shut down, restrict, and submit. Connecticut residents are paying higher energy prices, facing tighter land use restrictions, and watching productive land be regulated into silence—all while our global competitors move forward with no such constraints.

Don’t be fooled—this isn’t about protecting nature. It’s about control. It’s about embedding a permanent tool into the state constitution that can be used to restrict building, farming, energy production, business expansion, and even individual freedoms—all in the name of “the environment.”

We’ve already seen the cost of this kind of thinking. Clean, efficient gas turbines—capable of producing reliable power with reduced emissions—have been sidelined. The electric grid is under strain. Businesses are relocating. And middle-class families are bearing the cost of policies that have little effect on the environment but a massive impact on their freedom and wallets.

Connecticut is a small state. Our impact on global climate trends is minimal at best. But our state government’s appetite for control seems limitless.

It’s time to say enough.

We don’t need a constitutional amendment that gives the state even more power over our lives and land. We need accountability, local control, practical energy policy, and a return to the foundational values of liberty and personal responsibility.

Connecticut’s environment should be protected—by its people, not by bureaucrats like PURA with unchecked authority.

Let’s keep stewardship local. Let’s keep property rights sacred. And let’s remember what the founders wrote: that government derives its powers from the consent of the governed—not from amendments designed to rule over them.

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