Dear Editor:
I am 12 years old. Since I was 10 years of age, I have been wanting to become a marine biologist.
After learning what climate change is, and the impacts it has on Earth’s environment, I fear that by the time I become old enough to become a marine biologist, all I will have to work with is sand, and lots of plastic.
Though not only does the frightening threat of climate change affect my desired future career, it also affects you, me and everybody around us – whether it be through work, such as crop fields drying up, therefore ruining the soil, or through comfort, such as rises in temperature causing less productivity and outdoor recreation.
Fortunately, I learned there is hope. By reducing the amount of packaging we use every year, or using biodegradable packaging, we can limit the non-biodegradable material dumped into habitats like our oceans. And by using energy from renewable sources, like solar power, we can limit things like carbon dioxide trapping heat in the air.
Although I am thankful to the government for introducing Climate Accountability Legislation, Canada has missed every greenhouse goal we have set.
Eric Essinger
North Vancouver
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