The Climate Crisis Has Brought Us To The Crossroad

Do We Continue Down the Road We Have On For the Past 50 or more years? Or Do We Choose The Road to a Healthier, Greener Future?

Posted May 5^th, 2024 on Niagara At Large

By Doug Draper

When you look at the road too many of our municipal, provincial and federal politicians and too many of the rest of us continue choosing to take – a road that won’t address our climate crisis but will make it worse, I think of the following quote from longtime American environmentalist and climate fighter Bill McKibben –

On the growing climate change, scientists around the world are warning us over and over again that we have reached the crossroad, with the sign for one road – the road we have been on for far too many years  –  reading; Point Of No Return.

We pretend that it isn’t really there  there at our peril and at the peril of generations to come.

Which road are you going to take? The one we’ve been on or the road to a greener, carbon-free future?

P.S – Please don’t decide don’t say Yes – in fact tell our municipal and provincial politicians that you are saying NO – to Niagara Region’s plans for an expansion of Merritt Road through natural heritage lands in the Pelham, Thorold, Welland Area or to the the provincial Ford government’s plans for twinning the Garden City Skyway crossing the Welland Canal in St. Catharines or the construction of a brand new, multi-land Highway 413 through our Greenbelt lands around the GTA.

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