Thank you for the broad view offering on Climate crisis (April/May feature, p. 10). One line that particularly speaks to me is Ta’Kaiya Blaney’s observation that “Climate change (CC)…There are names behind it.”
This is a central and vitally important starting point. Corporations are named for very good reasons. Oil production companies, like tobacco in the past, have known for documented decades that there are severe adverse consequences of using the products that they draw from nature with the help of governments’ funding that helps to reduce the price of the products to artificially low prices for customers. These corporate names have lied to us and deceived us. We have taken the bait at face value, have not been paying the true cost, and now the bill is due.
Yes, “There are names behind” climate chaos and those names are mine and yours. Therefore I will no longer fly and add to environmental devastation, and I have installed a cold climate air source heat pump that replaces the furnace that was removed. My name still is on the list of contributors to environmental devastation and I am watching with increasing care.
As I noted in addressing a question from the city council about how I would encourage positive action to reduce CC, I invited everyone to begin at home and at school by paying attention to the carbon footprint of each mouthful of food. This makes it local and it certainly does make it personal. Choices can be made to make real differences. —Rev. Peter R. M. Mogk, Brantford, ON
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