To the editor,
Re: On climate, think about the children, Letters, March 19.
The children will inherit the earth, this planet we all live on.
Many of those children, who are too young to vote, are trying to make their voices heard by striking and activating for climate action and reform by those that should be accepting responsibility.
The generation that is in governments around the world now is the one that is able to introduce legislation to ensure that the global climate temperature rise is kept to a minimal level. It is time for adults in B.C., Canada and around the world to step up and demand change.
The industries involved have had the chance to change things on their own; they have known for decades that fossil fuels lead to climate change. Yet all big oil, big gas and mining companies have done is to keep increasing production with no concern for their actions. A carbon tax is not sufficient to bring the kind of change needed in Canada. I am incredibly disappointed with the governments of B.C., Alberta and Canada, and most of all the NEB which seems to just rubber-stamp any and all fossil fuel applications with no concern for the consequences.
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No one knows how the increases in global temperature are going to affect all life on the planet. There could well be a domino effect that causes things to worsen more rapidly than anyone expects. Look at all the changes that are already happening more rapidly than predicted. The plain and simple truth is that we cannot predict at all what is going to happen as global temperatures rise.
We have seen the disasters that are happening now. Can our governments really afford to provide aid and relief at the rate these disasters are increasing and becoming ever more severe? What about the human cost of these disasters? Imagine a fire raging towards you and knowing you are going to be burned, or a flood sweeping you away and knowing you will drown. Perhaps envisioning a personal consequence will jolt people out of their complacency.
Dinah Lestock-Kay, Nanaimo
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