Thinking about the future of the planet, not the here and now
Dear Editor,
Tim Ball - I have just read an emailed essay reportedly written by you, regarding the premise that global warming is not caused by CO2 emissions. While I am not a scientist, but a life-long observer of nature and people, I would like to add to your premise.
By reassuring people that “it isn’t their fault”, you give them permission to continue to abuse our planet— to NOT conserve water, to NOT find less offensive ways of travel other than spewing CO into the atmosphere, to NOT bother to recycle or reuse. The millions of acres of trees that have been cut down for agriculture in South America, and those decimated by disease in our own country, have contributed to the rising levels of CO2. Don’t people get it?? The number of “things”, including cars, that people in the western world think they have to have has increased exponentially the amount of toxins our planet has had to handle, from manufacturing all the way to delivery.
It’s one of two packages—you’re either FOR the planet and do your personal best to keep it healthy by conserving wherever you can, or you’re FOR only yourself and the here and now, and content to go on the wasteful way that has been the norm for the last century.
While science may prove that human-caused CO2 is not the problem, it will do no harm to our earth to pay heed to the doom sayers, and clean up our act!
Sincerely,
Dai Scott
Armstrong, BC
