On climate change, it’s not a tough choice, Editorial, Oct. 5

It isn’t a tough choice, but I’m afraid I do not have confidence that our present electoral system will enable us to respond adequately to the climate crisis by 2030.

As a result, in 100 or 200 years, it seems possible that the tropics will be uninhabitable and our north will become a destination for vast numbers of climate refugees from around the world. Our infrastructure will fail. Civil social order will completely collapse. And the incredibly wealthy will be no help from wherever they’re hiding until we die off.

I’d like to ask every candidate, and every voter as well, to please fast forward a hundred years. From your perspective, what kind of life will our great grandchildren have if we refuse to address human caused climate change? Maybe just think about that when you vote.

James Snetsinger, Toronto

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