Please commit to a 100%…

Please commit to a 100% renewable energy future, and do it sooner rather than later.  With incentives and when you look at the possibilities for job creation, there is no reason we have to have a far off year, like 2050, as the date by which to reach this.  Ontario could show leadership on this issue and commit to 100% renewable energy within 15 years, for example.

We do not have the right to continue to destroy and wreak havoc upon our planet so that there is little left for following generations to look forward too.  Do we want people, creatures and flora to have to suffer cataclysmic climate disasters just so we can have easier access to energy for the next few years?  I will not personally be remembered by history, but our generation, of the 1960's, and your government will be.  Do we want to be remembered with scathing expletives aimed at us or as the people who tried to stop the decline of our planet and tried even to back track the damage we have done.  I certainly prefer that latter scenario.

Since governments love job creation plans this one seems like an optimizer in that department.  The need for people to build, design, implement and maintain new totally renewable energy facilities will be ongoing.

Don't let the thought of the next election colour your vision of what is morally and ethically the right thing to do.  Do not let your fear of an election loss keep you from doing the only thing that will help keep future generation, of all creatures, from suffering due to damaging climate change events.  We should be here to do good not to continue the damage.

I would one day like to be a grandparent, not that I have any personal say in that, but I also fear what might happen to the children of my children, should they choose to become parents.  Would those unborn future generations even have a future like my parents expected for me when I was born or will they suffer so much drought, rising oceans and severe storms that almost no creatures will survive past the end of this century.  Is it right to cut off their futures before they are even thought of?  No!

We have the knowledge and the capability and we should certainly have the incentive given what we already see happening to the world, habitat loss and ocean acidification to name just a couple of extreme situations.  What is lacking is....actually I'm not sure why any government would not want to go with a 100% renewable energy future as soon as possible.  Please do so.

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