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Letter: Burnaby council's climate declaration is just greenwashing

Editor: Burnaby City Council’s declaration of a climate emergency is pure greenwash.
CLIMATE CHANGE

Editor:

Burnaby City Council’s declaration of a climate emergency is pure greenwash. They’ve known for years that global heating is an emergency and that any rational approach to it must include reducing consumption generally, and reducing car dependency in particular. 

A rational approach, however, has not been evident in their enthusiasm for carbon-intensive concrete highrise developments. Nor have there been any meaningful improvements to infrastructure for the greenest forms of transportation: cycling and walking.

In the decade or more that I’ve been riding my bicycle to work in Burnaby, hardly anything has changed. Cycling through Burnaby continues to be anything but safe, and it seems Burnaby City Council couldn’t care less. 

On the topic of one particularly dangerous intersection, I have on multiple occasions contacted mayor and council, but not a single one of them even bothered to acknowledge my correspondence.

Patrick Parkes, New Westminster