Heads in sand over climate change

What does it take to make the public, industry and government realize that we have a climate problem? Hundreds of people have died this year from climate change, thousands of temperature records have been set, hundreds of thousands of hectares of land have been burned, and hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayers’ money has been spent on mitigating the effects of climate change.

Despite these troubling statistics of death and destruction, we have the new premier of Ontario in denial and offering no solution, the federal Liberal government weakening its position, our local NDP’s new mantra is “pipelines to tidewater” and, of course, the clown to the south is pushing coal as the answer.

Who are you going to believe: minimally educated politicians and businessmen who have their hands in as many pockets as possible or well-educated scientists who have no conflict of interest? The lawyers could have a field day and an easy win by suing the oil industry and government but, unfortunately, we would only have rich lawyers and a dead planet. There has to be a better way.

Ian Wishart, Calgary