We Elders love our Grandchildren. We do our best to ensure they are healthy, happy and successful. We invest our savings in our grandchildren, and travel thousands of miles to spend time with them. Habituated to fossil-fuel products, we Elders are giving our grandchildren devastating planetary weather disruption for their future. Short-term we nurture them, long-term we doom them. Two degrees in global warming is the threshold of a sustainable food, water and employment lifestyle. With our present fossil-fuel usage, six degrees in global warming is where we are headed, where there is no human future. Credible scientists have sounded the climate crisis alarm, yet the majority of Elders arent responding to avert this threat to their grandchildrens lives. With economically viable energy alternatives and the opportunity to avoid disaster - doom is not a done-deal, but it will be if Elders dont react soon. The world is not going to end if we dont extract all of the fossil-fuel quickly, however our world will end if we do continue to extract as much of the fossil-fuel as we can. The Canadian Governments $34 billion a year subsidized fossil-fuel industry, could instead subsidize 500,000 person years of employment by installing more than 150,000 megawatts of clean renewable energy, and grant our grandchildren the gift of time to design even better renewable energy systems. For the love of our grandchildrens futures, Elders can choose to vote for leaders who will create subsidies for renewable energy to create sustainable employment, and who will place a livable environment as a top priority. No longer subsidized fossil-fuel can be designated for essential use, non-polluting extraction methods perfected, and the last of petroleum respectfully used far into the future as the nonrenewable resource it is. Now is the time for Elders to educate ourselves about the consequences of climate-change, put into action climate-change mitigation, and invest in a renewable energy economic system. May our grandchildren live to be grandparents too
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 01:55:11 +0000
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