Posted on 03/25/2017 6:00:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
David Miller is the president and CEO of World Wildlife Fund Canada
The new records humanity is setting are frightening: Arctic sea ice at an all-time winter low; 2016 as the hottest year on record; and a new high in the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere in millions of years.
As climate change unfolds before our eyes, the climate deniers now include a small but powerful number of global leaders, people who think climate change isn’t worth spending time or money fighting. This wasn’t the case when the global agreement to fight climate change was signed in Paris in December of 2015.
So, it can be easy to despair and think that the problem is too big for individual Canadians, or anyone, to tackle. In the face of disregard for science and for the impact of climate change on people and wildlife, what can the average person do? Can Earth Hour actually help move the needle on climate change?
Earth Hour isn’t about reducing emissions for a single hour on a Saturday night. Emissions aren’t the metric by which to measure this event.
Yes, Earth Hour is symbolic, but it’s not trivial. By disconnecting, we’re connecting with the biggest issue confronting the world today.
In Canada, we can take that hour to talk about the impact climate change is already having – entire communities forced to relocate because of permafrost melt, extreme weather events causing massive upheaval and habitat destruction, wildfires and floods causing people and wildlife to flee their homes.
We can take an hour Saturday night to talk about the impact climate change is having on narwhals, those almost-mythical unicorns of Arctic seas that are now prey for transient orcas no longer stopped by ice.
We can talk about polar bears,
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My high school newspaper!!
Nope.
Where is the barf alert?
“We can take an hour Saturday night to talk about the impact climate change is having on narwhals,...”
Lol.
These people are insane.
Literally.
>>Yes, Earth Hour is symbolic, but it’s not trivial. <<
Yes, yes it is trivial. Every year on Earth Day I turn on every light in the house, crank up the AC and open all my doors.
And no, a country with a disbursed population smaller than several of our states can not do a damn thing since humans have nothing to do with it.
No one even cares about quohogs!!!
I thought these were the same chaps who thought creation could just evolve itself.
Either we are looking at a tragedy (fast or slow) in a creation, or Darwin went AWOL.
I am of the creationist view and think that yes, we’ll lose some species, but God will still arrange for the ecological vacuums to fill from the worldful of creatures there still are. In the meantime, if other species are getting scarce, that’s why God gave mankind the capability of running zoos. And maybe we’ll even discover that narwhals are showing up somewhere we never thought they would. Have we managed to map out all the flora and fauna of earth? Not even close to it yet.
North Korean Solidarity Commie Hour
Polar Bears prosper!
Isn’t polar bear just the vanilla version of the grizzly bear? (Or grizzly bear the chocolate version of the polar bear.)
You crank up the AC.
I’m cranking up the heat.
I dunno, but think I’ve read that they are closely related.
Climate change is just another tactic the One World Government backers use to scare the low information snowflakes into submission to accomplish their goal for ultimate control.
Kind of funny to see Canadians in horror over the Earth warming a degree or two at most. They and Russia would be the biggest winners with a warming climate.
What is earth hour?
Some of the greatest technical and scientific achievements by man...metallurgy, cast iron, steel, physics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, controlled combustion, coal mining, AC power, central power stations, long-distance transmission of power, step-up and step-down transformers, control systems, wire manufacturing, electrical appliances, the incandescent bulb, motive power, traction engines, refrigeration cycles...were all mastered and commercialized to eliminate the pure drudgery of life for mankind that existed for 10,000 years and made for average lifespans of less than 40 years.
Why would we want to undo all this stellar achievement?
As someone who spent most of his career in the power industry, there is very little in life that makes me more angry than the idiots and hypocrites who posture and rail against power but who won’t go live in caves, eat bugs and bark, wear animal skins, toil in fields all day, and die by age 30.
I don’t even see them as eliminating drudgery, but rather as extending the capabilities of humanity.
Electricity, etc. are part of the reason why we aren’t staring down the barrel of a Malthusian menace.
There was a time when glory for these discoveries would have been given to God. It’s still not too late to, as the first long distance telegraph in 1844 did, say “What hath God wrought?”
Climate change happens...
Thousands of years ago NYC was under a mile of ice...
Not a thing us minuscule insects called humans compared to the planet can do anything about it...
Supreme arrogance to think we can..
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