Target: Pierre Poilievre, Leader of Conservative Party of Canada
Goal: Recognize climate change as an existential global threat and commit to stopping its spread.
As Canada celebrated its annual Clean Air Day, over 400 wildfires blazed across the landscape. Acreage is burning at a rate of well over 1,000 percent the normal level for this time of year. Countless residents have been evacuated, and plumes of smoke have degraded air quality in many American states. Firefighters battling the blazes have called them “unstoppable”…and it’s just the beginning.
Fire season still has several weeks to go in Canada, and scientists estimate that by the century’s close wildfire intensity and occurrence will have more than doubled around the world. Hotter and drier weather caused by climate change is a likely root cause and leadership in Canada is doing little to address it.
Just two short years ago, the nation’s Conservative Party voted that it would not even recognize climate change as a reality. This opposition party routinely resists any type of climate action and instead caters to fossil fuel special interests. They are not alone, however, as Canada’s president and ruling party talk about climate change but still support massive oil and gas subsidies, new drilling projects, and continued production that makes Canada one of the top five nations in the world for oil and gas output. Climate pledges too easily fall by the wayside, and the country burns as a consequence.
Sign the petition below to demand Canadian leaders do their part to help extinguish the fires of the climate crisis.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear MP Poilievre,
Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, Nova Scotia: Canada’s worst wildfire season in recorded history is undiscriminating in its ferocity and damage. Over 2,600 fires to date have ravaged five million-plus hectares of land. These landscapes and the living beings that call them home will be forever altered. This ongoing disaster should be a time for unity, not division.
Steps such as controlled burns and the creation of a national firefighting service could serve as important points of agreement. But for long-term solutions, these strategies must be accompanied by an acknowledgement of the world’s changing climate and humanity’s role in fostering—and ultimately reversing—these transformations. The evidence is all around you…in the dry heat you feel, in the degraded air you breathe, and in the communities struggling to adapt and survive. Do you want to continue living in a nation and a world where even the smallest spark can instigate a raging and unchecked inferno?
Canada can recover, but it will take the combined will of this party, its opposition, and every leader who is finally willing to put science and salvation ahead of politics and special interests. Please show you have the will.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo Credit: NASA Earth Observatory
Canada is a progressive nation. They are aware but simply not used to being victimized by nature. They need to open their eyes in order to see the need of nations in this troubeled world. We can work with the climate but every country is included and necessary along with every man, woman, and child. We are all responsible, to and for, the home we call earth. As the world’s needs change we must change along with the them. This is our home so let’s take care of the earth and our neighbors. Together we can do it. Apart we might not make it as people begin to think only of themselves. That’s the old way of thinking. We must think and act differently to bring the change needed.
We are all in this together!