Editor:
I have worked in the resource industry and am a retired B.C. teacher and grandparent looking back from 2035 and saying wake up!
I see no emergency action in Canada to the 2021 IPCC report that UN Secretary General António Guterres described as a “code red for humanity.” He said “The alarm bells are deafening" and "This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet."
Why are we still sleeping in 2023? The latest UN report on climate change states clearly that we must end fossil fuel supremacy while accelerating climate solutions by directing funding to proven, cost-effective, widely available climate solutions.
It is past time to scale up for 100 per cent clean electricity to power our homes and lives by 2035. It is possible, it's affordable, it will improve air quality, drastically reduce our carbon emissions and give our children a future.
Let's divest in big oil that is killing us and make the upcoming Federal Clean Electricity Regulations and other measures to enable a massive scaling up of wind, solar, energy storage and energy efficiency measures for a livable future.
Bill Willson
