Re: Oct.10.
Sadly, climate-protest actions are urgently needed.
Whether it鈥檚 single-use plastics clogging life-bearing waters, the mass deforestation and incineration of the Amazonian rainforest (the ecosystem biomass of which produces 20 per cent of Earth鈥檚 oxygen),听unprecedented stalling hurricanes,听a B.C. midsummer鈥檚 snowfall, a vicious heatwave, an endangered whale species gradually dying off, record-breaking flooding or geologically invasive/destructive fracking or drier forests resulting in unmatched wildfires or a myriad of other categories of large-scale toxic pollutant emissions and dumps 鈥� there鈥檚 discouragingly insufficient political gonad planet-wide to sufficiently address it.
For too long, what politically mattered most was 鈥� and, astonishingly, for too many it still does 鈥� the seemingly euphoria-inducing creation of jobs, however temporary, and stimulating the economy, however intangible when compared to the destruction of our natural environment.
Frank Sterle Jr.,
White Rock
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