Remember we talked about the void that people need to fill in their lives? The search for a cause that they can get behind and try to bring change to society as a whole?

Climate Change has been around for a long time. I grew up with the 3 R’s (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) and then it became Global Warming. Though I remember when I took a weather course as part of my degree at Mount Royal that the earth rotates through periods of warming and cooling.

If you’ve noticed, almost every natural disaster is now accredited due to climate change. Polar ice caps are melting, which changes the ocean water temperatures, which affects the weather systems, which affect us and our land. Every natural disaster is being used as a call to activism, to push people to join the cause of fighting climate change.

When we think “climate change” there is a common name that pops up - Greta Thunberg. One of her favourite calls to action is to reduce the amount of fossil fuels - to the point of not using them at all. They try to shut pipelines down, and there is a massive push to switch to the EV automobile instead of gasoline powered. The switch to wind power. Not to mention the carbon tax.

Let’s look at fossil fuels first. What these activists tend to forget, or overlook, is that the quality of life we live is because of such fossil fuels. Single-use plastics were created to increase hygiene, especially in hospitals and the food industry. But most of all, almost everything we have, clothes, furniture, technology, all our creature comforts, are based from oil production. Check out this link: Made from petroleum

So, if you really want to fight against oil and fossil fuels - take the lead, please. Go find a cave somewhere and live off the land. Prove that your life, and everyone with you is much better off. Stop being a hypocrite complaining about fossil fuels while everything you own and use is made from them.