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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Far better to set a stack of discarded tires on fire....
The smoke is wonderful and the fire reminds us of its power to consume./s
One day, many years from now, our Sun will cease providing us with warmth and light. Days will become grayer and grayer until black out. Long before, the days and nights will be unbearably cold. We think that freezing temperatures are uncomfortable, but the cold and the lack of light will end agriculture, the food supply we are used to, and all animal life will end.
These sad events will still be blamed on the Human species. Unbelievable?!!
**Far better to set a stack of discarded tires on fire....**
Well it IS made with sap from rubber trees.
Well, since it had no value at any other time, I have to assume the answer is still no.
It’s all empty virtue signaling.
And there are other places that are nearly uninhabited that would benefit. Large areas of Canada, Russia, Alaska, Greenland, and Antarctica would open up for wildlife and humans.
What a bunch of crap. Got a private Reply email from a Freeper in Alaska who says that there are hardly any moose seen in areas where they were once plentiful (due to unlimited hunting). That wolf packs now number up to 15 which make them the perfect killing machine for moose/elk, smaller mammals, birds, etc.
Freeper said that a veteran hunter/pilot said that he has never seen the animal life situation so bad, a lot of which has been caused by bad hunting practices and wildlife management practices at the governmental level.
Man has done some serious damage to wildlife but it can be corrected with better preservation practices and management policies, including getting rid of traps, baiting and shooting wildlife from helicopters.
Yep - they ARE crazy.
The company that bought where I work recently has made a big deal out of “Earth Hour” and wants us all to post on the company social page HOW we are going to spend it. IGNORED.
They also want everyone to take a “Gender Diversity” Pledge - IGNORED.
I just want to do my job. This is political crap at work!
I wish I could find the article that talked about the thousands and thousands of species lost before humans made a impact...
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