I feel privileged to see my own surroundings nationally recognized for our daily heat milestones.![😎](https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/e/notoemoji/15.0/1f60e/32.png)
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Many say that it is wrong that young people fear for their futures, that the media and climate activists are scaring our youth for ulterior motives… Huh?
Here I am on beautiful Vancouver Island surrounded by dry forest whereby every summer day I must literally be able to flee devastating wildfires on short notice. There are few ways off the Island so if everyone evacuated at once our main thoroughfares (surrounded by forest) become flammable parking lots. The key is to evacuate when it seems to early! I will have to live with those images of Lytton and Lahaina forever, knowing that no government can truly be prepared for 40+ heat coupled with extreme drought and high winds. This is no Green Panic – this is Reality and I deeply despise the ignorance that has brought us to this threshold.
I’m going to keep repeating the theme that real hope means recreating entire societies and systems in ways that don’t force Mother Nature to burn, flood, blow, poison or starve humanity to oblivion. Our locked-in thinking is the biggest barrier of all. Much of the public and ruling classes seem incapable of reimagining sustainable versions of 20-21st century governance (‘democracy is the best!), economics (capitalism is the best!), immigration (that’s their problem – just keep out people we don’t like!) intergenerational justice (unborn generations don’t generate any profits for me!) global agricultural practices (industrial-scale agriculture controlled by a few big multinationals is the only affordable way to feed ourselves!), indigenous rights and protecting nature (we must monetize their ancestral lands – nature that isn’t monetized is useless!) or even how to stand up to psychopathic bullies in power (they are too powerful – if I anger them they will hurt me!). But this topic demands more emails than I’m prepared to write today. Thank goodness for heat pumps! ![🙏🏾](https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/e/notoemoji/15.0/1f64f_1f3fe/32.png)
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Garth Mihalcheon