“For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.”
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Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.
With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.
The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
