‘Do whatever we can’

Dear Editor:

It is so frustrating to read letters claiming we don’t need to worry about climate change! Surely one only needs to look at what is happening around the world (cyclone Idai in Mozambique; flooding in Nebraska; forest fires in western Canada and the U.S.; droughts in Australia, Argentina and South Africa; sea level rises and disappearing ice sheets) to realize we are in an emergency situation.

It’s time to do whatever we can to reduce our personal carbon footprint. We need to tell our MPs, MPPs and town councils that we are fast approaching a tipping point and we expect them to implement all the tools available to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and to sequester carbon from the atmosphere.

We also worry about jobs, and note there are now more in renewable energy than in the fossil fuel industry, but jobs are not as important as having a livable world in which we won’t be burned, drowned or starved because we can no longer grow or harvest food.

Ron Moore,

Hillsburgh