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Letters | Engaged youth offer hope in climate change fight
- The dinosaur electorate that has voted a series of pollution-promoting, complicit and complacent governments into high office is on its last legs
There has been a discouraging lack of political courage and will to properly act upon the causes and effects of man-made global warming and climate change. Liberals and conservatives are preoccupied with vociferously criticising one another for their politics and beliefs, thus diverting attention away from where it should be sharply focused – the moral and ethical corruption of the largest polluters.
To me, human existence has for too long been analogous to a cafeteria line-up. It consists of a diverse, societally representative people all adamantly arguing over who should be at the front and who should be at the back.
Many of them also argue over who should get the last piece of pie and how much they should have to pay for it.
All the while, the interstellar spaceship on which they are all permanently confined – and is owned and operated by the wealthiest passengers and the fossil fuel industry – is on fire and toxifying at locations not normally investigated.
But I still see some hope for spaceship Earth and therefore humankind. There are many children who are environmentally conscious and active, especially among those who are approaching voting age.
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Hong Kong students join global school strike calling for action against climate change
Hong Kong students join global school strike calling for action against climate change
In contrast, the dinosaur electorate that for decades has voted a series of pollution-promoting, complicit and complacent governments into high office is gradually dying off. This will make way for more people-minded voters and thus a far more healthy planet.
Frank Sterle Jnr, British Columbia
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