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