Re: “Environment should be the top news,” column, Nov. 18.
More media coverage of the environment sounds like a great idea. Who would deny that a section dedicated to environmental well-being with stories covering climate change, resource use and abuse, pollution or habitat and species loss should be part of our daily conversations?
But will those stories attract the attention of influential leaders and individuals, those willing to act on troubling environmental reports? Or will they become just like daily business or sports news — piles of pages of constantly fluctuating, meaningless numbers and trivia waiting for recycling day?
Given that most folks now look to social media for their news, fake or not, today’s dailies should focus on three or four sections that everyone reads: the obituaries, Sudoku, crosswords and cooking.
Close examination of the priorities of today’s leaders, power brokers and much of the public tells us an environmental section will do little more than document the path of human extinction.
Ken Dwernychuk
Esquimalt
