First Hurricane Harvey, now Hurricane Irma–and my family in Miami will see the brunt of the worst hurricane in history!  We’ve had drought for four months, here in rainy Vancouver, forests are burning all over the world.  More and more people are evacuated.  What will it be like next month?

I gave my first talk on climate change 25 years ago.  Then it was just a warning– if the CO2 carbon dioxide keeps increasing, we will have warming air causing weather extremes.  Now it is here, and yes, the CO2 went from 375 to 409.  What we have is climate breakdown, when is it coming to your house.  Since 25 years ago, it has been shown over and over that WE humans, particularly in North America, are causing this.  Why don’t we stop?

There we are again, looking at the Vancouver Sun newspaper today September 6, 17.  Our British Columbia premier, Mr. Horgan, says that we people in this province are against continuing the oil line from Alberta to our Pacific Ocean, because we are afraid of oil spills.

Going back, Kinder-Morgan is one of the several oil companies that want to pump oil from Alberta, across the Rocky mountains, and to our B.C. ports, to be loaded onto tankers that will wind their  way through our torturous passages, and eventually be burned in Asia.

Yes, Mr Horgan, we BritishColumbians worry about the oil that will surely be spilled in our waters someday.  But that is NOT the primary issue.  We citizens of earth want to stop the climate disasters, we wanted to STOP trying to produce and sell more oil, back off!  No more oil, not going anywhere, not by boat, by pipeline, by train.

This is not a dream, this is reality.  The alternatives are here, feasible, available.  We have perfect answers to an energy crisis, we have lots of jobs for a change in employment.  What does it take?

There will be many protests against the continuation of fossil fuels.  Will the newspapers mention them, will TV show them?  We will put out a banner:

YES we CAN stop climate breakdown!

SAY NO to more oil and fossil fuels.

from Satya Brown

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