Lytton’s Main Street, before and after the devastating fire. (Photo: Chilliwack Fire Department member)
Starting Friday June 25, the West Coast saw a record-breaking heatwave. Hundreds of people — mostly seniors and people with chronic illnesses — passed away in the following week due to the heat. Wildfire reduced Lytton, a village that reached close to 50°C, to ashes the very next day. Our hearts are heavy thinking of all those who’ve lost loved ones or cherished places.
Nobody can ignore the clear link between carbon pollution from fossil fuels and the extraordinary temperatures and dry conditions we’re now experiencing. Even as people lose their homes and their lives, politicians elected to keep us safe are building new fossil fuel projects that make the problem worse. Whether it’s Premier Horgan’s love affair with LNG or Prime Minister Trudeau’s Trans Mountain pipeline construction — it needs to end now.
Will you write a letter to your local newspaper editors making the connection between these oil and gas projects and the devastating impacts of climate change we’re seeing all around us?