About a week ago our NDP labour premier okayed the building of a new LNG project in B.C. No! It means almost all of our politicians still don’t understand it. This is a heading us towards human suicide.
LNG, or liquid gas, is a fossil fuel just like coal and oil. Increasing fossil fuels in any way shape or form, is adding to the CO2, is increasing global warming. We think this is far in the future, but it is NOW! At this moment, acres and acres of farm land on earth are turning into desert every day, never to recuperate in this century for sure. Millions of people are leaving their dead countryside, millions of immigrants who can never go home. Where can they go? Here.
For the first time more people are leaving California than arriving. Their agriculture has emptied the aquifers of many states, their agriculture is barely hanging on. If the CO2 goes up, which is doing rapidly, it only worsens the situation. STOP IT.
Premier Horgan says that when he went to China he felt sorry for the poor Chinese with the pollution of visible particles, so he wanted to give them natural gas. Listen, Horgan, coal gives visible pollution, but CO2 is invisible, and will give them, and us, much more damage than particles. Global warming is going on right now, and it has to be halted now. That means that CO2 has to come down NOW. That means NO more pipelines, No more fossil fuel plants, It is a lot easier to prevent these new fossil fuel attempts, than to back up on the existing fossil fuel production.
The atmosphere will reach 450 C2 (now at 409) before 2050, our kids will just be starting families, and half of earth will be unlivable. This is a dreadful prediction, but all the scientists agree. We would love to be wrong, but so far, global destruction has been even faster than predicted. Can we take a chance? .
The fossil company spokespeople (our press) are saying that the LNG is just for the “transition.” Wrong. Now there is no need for transition, the alternate technology is here. It would be much cheaper to install alternate energy for the “transition” than to make pipelines, LNG plants, and high-risk tankers on the water.
Our people are protesting the pipeline, being ignored. They carry placards saying “Save our water”, “Save our coast.” Those are important, but people will pay more attention, if the future protesters carry signs that boldly scream SAVE OUR CHILDREN!
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