Climate Change Bill

WHILE it is very commendable and historical that we are focusing on how to mitigate, adapt to and address, the changes brought about by the changed and the changing global climatic conditions, it is very perplexing and mindboggling that we — like the current narrative and conversation — are focusing in the Climate Change Bill — on one point in the whole spectrum of climatic events.

I believe climate change, as the name suggests, is about movement.

It’s about change, it’s about fluidity. It’s definitely not about a static position.

Change in climatic conditions, as the name suggests to me, means changing events from warm to hot, to extreme hot then to cool and cold and then icy cold and vice-versa, in a never-ending cycle.

There is global warming happening right now.

We can all painfully see that.

But it will eventually peak at some point in the near future — if not already — and then global cooling will set in.

Does the Bill cover the effects on our people of that scenario, apparently not. I believe the Bill just focuses on one currently topical aspect of that natural cycle — global warming — and that alone. We should take the opportunity to make the Climate Change Bill, encompassing of all climatic events in the spectrum — as the word “change” suggests and really be a true climate change advocate to the rest of the world. Otherwise, the Bill should logically just be a Global Warming Bill.

That’s my own humble opinion anyway.

EDWARD BLAKELOCK Pacific Harbour