Dear Editor:
RE: Doomsdayers, March 7.
There is nothing that the “climate doomsdayers” would love to see more than scientific proof that their concerns about a climate crisis are unfounded. Unfortunately this is not the case. Scientific data stacks up daily to indicate the opposite.
It is also ludicrous and self serving to suggest that we are not focused on a real problem like plastic pollution or are not continually striving to reduce our own personnel carbon output. Both of these issues are vital to a healthy planet and of great concern.
However, personal reduction alone cannot avert the crisis we are facing. This must be a global effort with universal government cooperation, but our own government is the only one Canadians can effectively influence. Without the political will, we as global citizens will fail.
At the moment the most proven, efficient, least costly and most socially just method of achieving reduced carbon output is through a revenue-neutral carbon tax. This means that most Canadian households will have the extra costs returned to them while still encouraging personal reductions and spurring innovations for viable alternatives.
If you doubt this just check your 2018 tax returns. The refund is already there to be claimed.
Do we really want to gamble on whether this is really a human-made crisis or just a natural disaster?
If we can’t get together on such an important issue then we had better give our children and grandchildren an extra hug tonight for there will be no future for them.
Sue Braiden,
Erin