Insufficient political gonad

Whether it’s drier shrubbery resulting in unmatched California (and even B.C.) wildfire devastation, the mass deforestation and incineration of the Amazonian rainforest (the ecosystem biomass of which produces 20% of Earth’s oxygen), single-use plastics clogging life-bearing waters, unprecedented stalling hurricanes, a B.C. midsummer’s snowfall, a vicious heatwave, an endangered whale species gradually dying off, record-breaking flooding or geologically invasive/destructive fracking or a myriad of other categories of large-scale toxic pollutant emissions and dumps—there’s discouragingly insufficient political gonad planet-wide to sufficiently address it.

For too long, what politically mattered most was—and, astonishingly, for too many it still does—the seemingly euphoria-inducing creation of jobs, however temporary, and stimulating the economy, however intangible when compared to the destruction of our natural environment. Thus, sadly, climate-protest actions are urgently needed.

Frank Sterle Jr.

White Rock, British Columbia