Dear North Cowichan mayor and council:
We heartily support council for approving recommendations made in our recent Climate Change Assessment & Adaptation Strategy.
Details appear in a Sept. 18, 2024 Cowichan Citizen story and timely editorial.
Such long-term planning is exactly the proactive, cogent strategy our eco-aware municipality needs to locally confront real global climate change risks spanning wildfires and flooding to rising temperatures.
Fixes are sure not cheap, but would be money well spent to help mitigate environmental effects North Cowichan is already experiencing.
Yet incredibly three councillors voted against Urban Systems' paid study. The budget-brain trio seems to deny or dismiss widely verified impacts human-caused climate-change is wreaking on our fragile planet.
It’s long been accepted the eco-culprits are fossil-fuel use, habitat loss and other destructive practices.
We suggest pro-business councillors Bruce Findlay, Tek Manhas and Mike Caljouw Jr. educate themselves immediately about these dire threats facing our municipality and our world — or absent themselves from voting on such critical matters well understood by their realistic council colleagues.
Yours in climate-change planning,
Peter W. Rusland
North Cowichan
