The dysfunction continues

Greta Thurnberg is right about one thing – it is our world, and we are going to take it back, one election at the time.

Fear mongering and misinformation will keep the issue on the front pages, as climate change has turned this election into a war of fact versus fiction.

There is no doubt millions of tons of pollutants are changing the soil, the air, and our water, but massive seismic activities and the magnetic north (pole) wandering off Ellesmere Island are most likely not man made.

Taxes will never reduce consumption till there are competitive alternative sources of energy, and billions of dollars invested in research have produced remarkable results, but pipelines are still safer than trains, and leave very low carbon and aesthetic footprints.

Policy discussions have been replaced by talking points as politicians are attempting to seduce the voters, promising us the world they have taken away from us, instead of telling us how they are going to use fact-based research and a healthy dose of common sense, to bring sustainable resolutions to the many challenges we are facing.

An extremely dysfunctional and undemocratic electoral system is pitting parties against each other instead of promoting teamwork to finding solutions.

That has changed the question on the ballot to who do we trust while we are contemplating who to vote against, as Trudeau denied us a ballot that finally would have allowed us to vote for the candidates with the integrity and commitments to open the doors for open and unfettered input from the people.

That will not happen until such time we have another electoral system in place that will take control away from the politicians and give it back to the people – and the Harpers’ and the Trudeaus’ of the world will never allow that to happen. 

Andy Thomsen, Kelowna