Editor:
Re: Support our students (Aug. 23)
What exactly is the “climate emergency” that the schools on the Coast should declare? Emergency has a pretty narrow definition, frequently involving police or ambulances, certainly requiring immediate action from bystanders. How exactly will the declaration of a “climate emergency” ever have a positive outcome if nobody knows what it means? Does it serve someone’s agenda to frighten our children?
There are people who think that the sky is literally falling and some of these same people worship at the Church of Climate Change and Carbon Tax. I do get it that some people really believe that by paying huge taxes to a useless government we can save the planet from something, maybe even reverse the 10,000 years since the last ice age.
In a hundred years from now, when our bones are all in the catacombs, people will remember our time the same as they now do about witch-hunts or whaling. Not even 100 years in our past there were flu epidemics, purges, pogroms and horrible wars that killed hundreds of millions of people.
We did all that to each other. Good luck getting a consensus on “climate emergency.”
My suggestion is to spend all that energy locally, in your own neighbourhood. Fish. Trees. Water. Garbage. Rapid transit. Work to solve local problems before you waste any effort on a non-responsive planet.
Ken Dibnah, West Sechelt
