To the Editor,

How many more “once in a lifetime” extreme weather events do we have to live through before our political leaders get serious about the climate emergency?

Canada is only halfway through our worst wildfire season on record, historic flooding has devastated communities in Nova Scotia, and droughts are wrecking crops across the country. Meanwhile, our federal government still won’t stand up to the fossil fuel industry driving the climate crisis.

The climate science is clear, no matter what Big Oil wants you to think. We can only prevent a future of ever-worsening fires, floods and droughts if we rapidly phase out fossil fuels. We have all the technology to start doing that today, but we need politicians to find some courage to make polluters pay. I will ask my MP and MPP to put people and the planet first and suggest many others do so as well.

Don Ross

Milford