How to respond to climate change

Thank you Jim Harding for summarizing the current situation so well.

It’s like we’re living a Hollywood movie and no one is noticing.

So what is the response? In the next six months: plant three trees; buy a smaller car or electric car or a bus pass; get a quote for solar panels; write a letter of support for the carbon tax and ask Premier Moe to spend the legal fees for disputing it on buying back the Indian Head shelterbelt centre for the new purpose of planting trees wherever property owners are willing. Then, do a little more than that to make up for the John Gormleys who think it’s acceptable to do nothing.

A message to John Gormley: Saying we don’t have responsibility because it won’t make a difference is childish, and bad math, because obviously every person has to do a share. I argue Saskatchewan has to do more as we are among the small number of communities who can afford many different options.

Secondly, this idea that we can’t reduce our reliance on fossil fuels in both our lives and our economy because we use clothes and objects made from plastic is ... also very silly.

Next time you see an oil company ad on TV showing a baby bottle falling on the ground and not breaking because it was made out of plastic — identify the logic error.

The climate is not destabilizing because babies use plastic bottles.

It is destabilizing because almost every person who reads this burns 40 kg of gasoline in their car every 14 days and has been doing so since they were 16.

Frances Simonson, Regina