Dear Mr. Prime Minister, and all others of whom this may concern,
I hope this letter reaches you before the new year, when we will say goodbye to the old year and decade for good. This is the third letter I’ve written to you, and as always, my subject is the Climate Crisis.
2019 was a very important year for the history books. After all 2019 was the year that the Fridays for Future movement really picked up in Canada and around the world and it was the year that people really started to realize what the Climate Crisis was. 2019 was full of studies and reports that further pulled back the curtain of ignorance hanging over the Climate Crisis. But 2019 lacked something. It lacked real action. I’m not saying nothingwas done, but there was certainly a disproportionate amount of information to action. We now know more than ever what’s going on. But still, there is so little being done.
So while 2019 was the year of knowledge, 2020 will be the year of action! We canstill do this. 2020 can be the year.
This year my New Year’s resolution will be to do not only my fair share for the planet, but twice as much as that. Mr. Prime Minister, may I suggest you make the same New Year’s resolution? Can Canada as a whole commit to this for the new year and the new decade? Can we all decide to make 2020 the year of action?
I hope the decade to come is a good one. And by the end of it we can all look forward to the next one, not stand in fear of the natural disasters and human suffering that the 2030s will likely bring.
I hope you have a wonderful day!
Amelia Penney-Crocker