Toyota bz4x
Climate Change
I try not to be too political in my weekly blogs, but this week something so extraordinary took place that it requires a response – from each and every one of us.
US President Donald Trump spoke to the UN earlier this week and told the UN that climate change is “a con job” and that “renewables don’t work.”
Both these statements are blatant lies.
Trump is beholden to the fossil fuel companies that paid for his campaign, and he sees only money as something worth going after. It was remarkable to see a world leader at the UN, the place that stands for international cooperation, talk about how only the US has the right ideas and how many other countries are “going to hell”. Trump completely missed the fact that climate change drives a lot of the other issue he spoke about – immigration and mass human migration.
As a Conservationist concerned about the future of the planet, Trump’s words were spoken and were like a dagger aimed straight at me. My wife and I drive hybrid vehicles, have heat pumps as our major source of heat, eat moderately low on the environmental scale (eschewing much red meat and eating a lot of fish and poultry), don’t speed in our cars, etc., etc. – all things an average person can do to make a change. This week, I took my Rav4 hybrid in for a routine checkup and while there saw Toyota’s new forward design – an all-electric bz4x that the sales people say will have a range of over 500 km in the 2026 model (see photo). I sat in the car, and like my cousin’s Tesla, it is amazing what technology can bring us, and so important to the future of the planet.
I hope people will not simply ignore President Trump. His words demand a response, and it is up to all of us to double down on our efforts to help the planet – for the sake of our children and grandchildren. I especially hope my fellow American citizens (I’m dual American/Canadian) think carefully about who they have elected, and will think about the future when voting in elections to come.
