Grandkids will know it was real

Dear Editor: “Governments that fail to provide responses to the global climate crisis are doing so “at their own peril,” former United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres said during a visit to Toronto.”

Many people believe that climate change is so real that it behooves governmentts to do everything in their power to combat it. In fact, they believe that governments should react to the climate change as if it is World War III.

If this is the case, you will recall what happened to the Nazis who were judged responsible for the Second World War.

If, as Figueres suggests, a failure to respond to climate change means nations that fail to counter it should be dealt with as Germany’s leaders were, then I would think the political leadership in Canada would be smart to get off their behinds and do everything they can to make sure future generations don’t avenge themselves as the victors of the Second World War did with the Nazis.

With just a few years left before the tipping point of climate change is reached, I would suggest that they need to take action now.

I might also suggest that parents who don’t take this seriously today might go down in their great grandchildren’s memoirs as, “What were those people thinking about?” Or words to that effect. Frank Martens

Summerland