The Local Weekly The heart and soul of our communities with news and information about the Sunshine Coast
We don’t have a bedtime story yet that parents can read (to their kids) about the carbon budget, but I’m sure it’s coming soon to a neighbourhood near you. The 43rd federal election was an enormous awareness raising campaign for adults on so many levels but most notably the insight that we are between a rock and a hard place when it comes to the future.
Call it what you want but it is clear that the climate emergency is an unprecedented “economic crisis” that will not go away until we leave fossil fuels – coal, oil and natural gas – in the ground. Nothing is going to get better until we accept this and insist that government at all levels assume this realization as their modus operandi. If you are curious to know why the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion can never be built, that the Alberta tar sands need to be decommissioned now and that LNG in BC has no future, do your homework.
The two most important words for all of us to understand and bring deep into our lives are “carbon budget”. Simply put, our life-giving atmosphere has very limited space for more greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane. Ignorance of this game-changing reality is downright dangerous. Get educated; be a life-long learner.
Tim Turner, Gibsons
