Letter: Just more ‘blah, blah, blah’

By Letter to the Editor on October 6, 2021.

Dear editor,

Recently, Greta Thunberg aptly described the climate change efforts of faux or neo-environmentalist politicos as just more “blah, blah, blah.”

To me, she was also saying that, while bone-dry-vegetation world regions uncontrollably burn, mass addiction to fossil fuel products undoubtedly helps keep the average consumer quiet about the planet’s greatest polluter, lest they feel and/or be publicly deemed hypocritical. Meanwhile, (neo)liberals and conservatives remain overly preoccupied with vocally criticizing one another for their relatively trivial politics and diverting attention away from some of the planet’s greatest polluters, where it should and needs to be sharply focused.

Industry and fossil-fuel friendly governments can tell when a very large portion of the populace is too tired and worried about feeding/housing themselves or their family, and the virus-variant devastation still being left in COVID-19’s wake – all while on insufficient income – to criticize them for whatever environmental damage their policies cause/allow, particularly when not immediately observable. In fact, until recently, I had not heard Greta’s name in the mainstream corporate news-media since COVID hit the world.

​Frank Sterle Jr.

White Rock, B.C.

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