Please breathe deeply , Mr Harper, and tell me something, if you'd be so kind.
It's about climate change, and Copenhagen. I'm really glad you're going.
I'd like you to forget the science, for a bit. Let’s forget, for a moment, whether you “believe” in climate change or not, and just answer this one thing, as you breathe deeply for me -
Mr. Harper, is the air clean, like when you were a kid?
Is there a good amount pollution in our atmosphere now? Or should we add more without thinking much about it.
How much longer can we keep adding to it?
Because it’s not just disappearing, vanishing, going to another planet, magically leaving our atmosphere.
Nope, it stays there. And next year we add more, and next and next.
And regardless of whether or not this has any effect whatsoever on our climate (though it’s hard to see how it wouldn’t, frankly), it just can’t be good for our human lungs.
So what do you think? Can we wait?
Breathe deeply, Mr. Harper, and tell me. Maybe we should act on climate change - if not for the climate and humanity's, than for our own lungs. And our kids.
You know rates of asthma and lung diseases are rising.
It's not going to magically get better.
Here's your chance.
On behalf of the lungs of all Canadians, I remain,
On behalf of the lungs of all Canadians, I remain,
Yours Sincerely,
Vanessa LeBourdais
Port Moody, BC
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